ADPs are strictly a Microsoft solution and, as such, won’t function with any other relational database server except SQL Server—at least not directly. You can continue to use Access with other ...

Application support is also important. Microsoft has taken some steps toward this already—for example, the JDBC driver, used to access SQL Server from Java applications, was recently open ...

Microsoft announced a new data access driver for SQL Server that should be the path forward for data developers in the era of .NET Core. As the traditional, Windows-only .NET Framework is basically ...

At today's kickoff for Microsoft ... resources. SQL Server has supported backing up to Azure blob storage since a late release of SQL Server 2012. Still, it has always relied upon access keys ...

Microsoft’s answer to the problem is to release SQL Server Express to the Azure Gallery marketplace. Customers can now access SQL Server Express with Tools 2014, 2012 and 2008R2 virtual machines ...