Microsoft has open sourced a .NET 5 C# Language Extension for SQL Server, allowing developers to work with relational data in the company's flagship programming language.

You can use VB.NET or C# to write procedural code and create user-defined types and aggregates in SQL Server.

Untangle SQL Server connection strings Today’s README file explains how to create connection strings to SQL Server databases using Visual Studio’s built-in tools.

You can use VB.NET or C# to write procedural code and create user-defined types and aggregates in SQL Server.

Visual Studio .NET tools interface nicely with the database, and the code runs on Windows Server 2003.” The server’s high scalability, he says, is also beneficial. “We have four terabytes of database ...

I know you can install Windows 11 for ARM in Parallels and then run Visual Studio and SQL Server on top of that (with ARM-x64 emulation, I guess?), but IIS support was missing last I checked.

PySpark development is now fully supported in Visual Studio Code. Through an extension built for the aforementioned purpose, users can run Spark jobs with SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters.