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 ...

We have our SQL server configured to only allow Windows accounts (i.e. not mixed). However, in some cases we are connecting from non-domain boxes and we want to specify a domain account to connect to ...

I am trying to run an Azure Durable Function on ACA using an Azure SQL server as storage. Connection authentication must be done via Active Directory. The Connection string created by Aspire is as ...

If you're creating a brand new Azure Function project with SQL binding, then the extension prompts whether you would like to include the password for the connection string in the local.settings.json ...

The sample data in SQL is provided by Microsoft's AdventureWorks training database, which can be provided both on your own SQL server and directly as an Azure SQL Database. Microsoft provides ...

When deploying SQL Servers and when you need to implement some of kind of business intelligence, chances are you're going to need a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) catalog. A SSIS catalog is a ...

We're doing some house cleaning at work (some servers are getting moved around in the datacenter, etc etc) and so one of the test boxes I use here at work finally got moved into the datacenter. Great, ...