There were a few announcements coming out of Redmond, Wash. today, concerning the next generation of Microsoft's suite of tools for software developers - Visual Studio 2010 - and the platform - .NET ...

Microsoft announced a new data access driver for SQL Server that should be the path forward for data developers in the era of .NET Core. As the traditional, Windows-only .NET Framework is basically ...

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For developers working with SQL Server, few performance tuning techniques are as essential--or as frequently misunderstood--as indexing. Done right, indexing can drastically improve application ...

Computing on the SQL server and getting the answer via SqlClient SQL data brought into memory via SqlClient and the compute done in .NET code. Beyond execution time, how do you factor in that #2 will ...