A new SQL Server 2025 feature lets organizations run vector-based semantic searches on their own data, connecting to local or cloud-hosted AI models without relying on massive general-purpose LLMs.

The Azure SQL team has released version 1.34.0 of the MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code, a cross‑platform tool for developing against SQL Server, Azure SQL Database and SQL Database in ...

Q&A Introduction to .NET Aspire By David Ramel 02/19/2025 .NET Aspire is a cloud-native application stack designed to simplify the development of distributed systems in .NET. Introduced at Microsoft's ...

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In Preview 4, .NET Aspire detects EF Core tooling launches and disables connection string validation, ensuring as reported, successful migration creation.

Your database may get damaged due to several reasons. A backup will help you to restore the database lost in case of disasters and problems, like hardware failure, virus attack, or others. How To ...

I want to use ef core 6 ( along with .Net 6 ) to connect to a sql server instance with a named instance e.g. server\myinstance . shows how to connect to a local db. When I want to use connection ...

You can connect an Azure App Service app to any on-premises resource that uses a static TCP port, such as SQL Server, MySQL, HTTP Web APIs, and most custom Web Services. This article shows you how to ...