The TinyTDS gem is meant to serve the extremely common use-case of connecting, querying and iterating over results to Microsoft SQL Server from Ruby using the FreeTDS's DB-Library API. TinyTDS offers ...

While Dapper provides excellent support for performing CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations efficiently, it does not have built-in support for bulk operations (i.e., bulk insert, bulk update ...

Copilot in Excel introduces new finance-focused capabilities that help teams work to their standards, use trusted financial data, and stay in control of every change. GPT‑5.5 Instant is now available ...

When developing database-driven .NET and .NET Core, regardless of the database we intend to deploy in the end, we will often want to work with a database engine that is lightweight and fast, in order ...

In my recent article I've reported about a nice free alternative to manage SQL databases, which, from the same UI can manage also MySQL databases. I thought that it might be a good idea to actually ...

It's trivial to add a new db type as long as it has an ADO.NET provider. Please submit a pull request or open an issue if you have one you'd like to add. Many admins are accustomed to using Sqlcmd; it ...

There's no doubt that Entity Framework with LINQ is great (I've certainly written enough articles about it). But Entity Framework comes at a cost. As Matthew Jones points out on his blog, using ...

SQL Server 2016 lets you treat JSON objects like rows in a table, allowing you to use data from AJAX queries in joins, updates and any other SQL statement you can think of. SQL Server 2016 provides ...