A lot of MCP examples floating around right now focus on cloud services or high-level concepts. So I wanted to document something more practical: how to set up Microsoft’s SQL MCP Server against a ...

Ever wished you could just ask your database questions in plain English? "How many products did we sell last month?" or "Show me the top 5 customers by revenue," instead of writing complex SQL queries ...

This project adds full support for time zones to Microsoft SQL Server. This implementation uses the industry standard IANA time zone database. If you are used to Microsoft Windows time zones, such as ...

What is an exception handler? An exception handler is code that stipulates what a program will do when an anomalous or exceptional event occurs and disrupts the normal flow of that program's ...

Take advantage of connection resiliency in EF Core to detect errors and retry commands and enable your ASP.NET Core application to overcome transient faults. A high-quality application must be stable, ...

Mwiza develops software by profession and has been writing extensively on Linux and front-end programming since 2019. He has a master's in Information Systems and is a certified C# developer. Some of ...

The SQL Repay tool was created since SQL Server's Replay feature is based on SQL Server Profiler traces rather than SQL Server Extended Events. Other key features of the SQL Replay tool: We don't want ...

LiteDB is a fast, simple, zero-configuration, embedded NoSQL database for .Net. It is a good choice for simple applications (web, mobile, or desktop) where you may need one data file per user but ...

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 ...

This is a basic question that I think I know the answer to but I just wanted to double check the consensus view. I've got a WinService written in C#/.NET 2.0. It's job is to be continually downloading ...