Providing a drop down list in your ASP.NET Web applications help users avoid wasting time with bad data and it's a kinder, gentler thing to do.

Learn about a web service method to back up a database from a mobile device using the SQL Backup command and asynchronous method calls.

The write part of managing a data access layer is where things can go awry. Writing requires managing changes, validation, and transactions. Learn how to handle the challenge.

Here's a new way to access an Oracle database from MS CRM.

The database assembly build tool is a tool to allow a developer to select database schema items (tables, views, stored procedures, users, and so forth) and export the DDL to create these items to an SQL file.

A utility form that will show DataGrid events with parameters as they happen in realtime.

Learn how to change databases at the customer's location by using XML and ADO.

Using Visual Basic, learn how to transfer data formatted by COBOL (flat data) to Microsoft Access.

You can generate perfect SQL even if you aren't a SQL programmer, and you never have to leave Visual Studio .NET for most of your day-to-day SQL tasks.