Windows 7 includes an ODBC manager that lets you connect from your desktop to a SQL server. You create a data source name (DSN) to save database setup information, so you can open a connection to the ...

Microsoft today announced the general availability of the open source Data API builder (DAB), which provides REST and GraphQL endpoints for Azure databases, some three years in the making. The ...

In the original proposal for the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: A generic tool could perhaps be made to allow any database which uses a commercial DBMS to be displayed as a hypertext view. We ...

Microsoft introduced a new service into its "intelligent edge" portfolio at the recent Build conference. Here's how Azure SQL Database Edge will fit into the company's broader vision for a more ...

Today’s README file explains how to create connection strings to SQL Server databases using Visual Studio’s built-in tools. To provide an example using real source, I created a simple Winforms ...

Oracle also introduced Autonomous AI Lakehouse, a new platform that combines Oracle’s Autonomous AI Database with the open ...