Use custom-built .NET Framework 4.0 classes to connect an ASP.NET Web application to a SQL Server 2012 database.

SQL Server Management Studio Alternatives that are Free I'm down on SQL Server Management Studio right now. I basically just spent a day trying to swap out the evaluation version of SQL Server 2008 R2 ...

For those legacy SQL Server 2008/R2 applications that remain critical, some form of high availability or disaster recovery protection will be required to preserve business continuity.

Take advantage of the open source library Serilog to log your ASP.NET Core application’s data to SQL Server or another database target.

You can accomplish this using either Access 97/2000 or SQL Server. In my case I am using SQL Server so the syntax for things like string concatenation are a little different (SQL uses the '+' sign ...