Building a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server in .NET allows you to expose external tools (like database access) to AI assistants (e.g. GitHub Copilot in VS Code) through a standardized interface. In ...

Stored procedures are essential tools in the arsenal of a software developer dealing directly with relational databases, maximizing the performance of operations in these databases with an efficiency ...

Take advantage of stored procedures, query pagination, query caching, and other advanced Dapper feature to simplify data access and ensure high performance. The Dapper ORM (object-relational mapper) ...

Create a new XML manifest file for the given PVS vdisk, fetching version details from SQL and/or the vhdx/avhdx files on disk. This can then be used to import the disk into the PVS console. For use ...

Unfortunately, not every SQL database is always available when we expect it to be. When you're creating automation scripts to discover, add, update or remove records from a remote SQL database, you ...

A query shortcut allows you to execute code simply by hitting Ctrl and a number key. Cool. But first, there are a few things to know about query shortcuts: ...

SQL Server 2016 lets you treat JSON objects like rows in a table, allowing you to use data from AJAX queries in joins, updates and any other SQL statement you can think of. SQL Server 2016 provides ...

I think storing images in a database can save a developer loads of time and can ease his life while dealing with visuals, either creating a local application or a web application. Think of storing ...