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The current process uses Azure Data Factory (ADF) to call Eventbrite APIs to get all of the registrations, but I wanted to see if we could perform the same process now in SQL Server. I'll walk through ...

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When developing database-driven .NET and .NET Core, regardless of the database we intend to deploy in the end, we will often want to work with a database engine that is lightweight and fast, in order ...

Before Cl0p ransomware begins releasing its supposed avalanche of MOVEit zero-day bug victims, we asked experts what should be expected from the gang’s second “grand show” of 2023. Spoiler alert: it ...

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) ...