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Leverage your existing classes and the power of generics to speed up and simplify importing denormalized data into your system.

SQL Server's new FILESTREAM feature simplifies the process of keeping file-based data, such as images, in sync with relational data.

SQL Server 2008 introduces four new date data types: time, date, datetime2, and datetimeoffset.

This article explores the time and date data types and shows how they can be used and formatted from within an ASP.NET page. This article also includes a short discussion on the datetime2 and datetimeoffset and compares and constrasts SQL Server 2008's six different date data types.

A lot of articles have been written about database concurrency conflict detection and the various ways of handling them.Unfortunately most of these articles, and accompanying solutions, have one major flaw in that they focus on the technical issues and database implementation instead of real-world data and how people use the data. In this article, I will try to show the difference between focusing on the database implementation and on the real-world data. I will show some possible approaches on how to solve these concurrency issues.

An unfortunate use of a base class to provide logging data for all classes in an Entity Data Model creates chaos in the database. Learn why this happens and how to avoid the problem.

The Sync Framework can be used to build apps that synchronize data from any data store using any protocol over a network. We’ll show you how it works and get you started building a custom sync provider.

This article aims to explains how to implement functions to deliver data via HTTP POST or HTTP GET in ASP.NET to an specified link.

Bringing WPF like declarative data binding to ASP.NET Web Forms to enable declarative two-way data binding to any object whilst opening up MVVM UI development.

Exploring the uncharted territory of user behavior data in web "walled-gardens." The uncharted territory of user behavior data based on what users do in such web walled gardens as Facebook was the focus of a "tweet jam" last week organized by The Open Group. Some of the many notable participants in the tweet jam around the hash tag #ogChat on July 11 worried about the prospect of misuse of the user identity and behavior data, but were more mixed about what to do about it. I was the moderator of the tweet jam. [Disclosure: The Open Group is a sponsor of BriefingsDirect podcasts.] With hundreds of tweets flying at break-neck pace, yesterday's #ogChat saw a very spirited discussion on the Internet's movement toward a walled garden model. In case you missed the conversation, you're now in luck! Here's a re-cap of yesterday's #ogChat.

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In this first part of tutorial I will show you, how to create data storage objects (databases, tables, views ...) using SMO