This article teaches you how to connect to an Always On availability group listener for SQL Server. An availability group listener is a virtual network name that clients use to connect to a database ...

You can encrypt all incoming connections to SQL Server or enable encryption for just a specific set of clients. For either of these scenarios, you first have to ...

SQL Server backups cannot be restored to older versions directly. Use Export and Import Data-Tier Application for cross-version database migration. Reconfigure permissions, logins, and connection ...

When you restore or attach a database to a different server, the database user loses the connection to the original server logins. If you manually create a login with the same name on a secondary ...

This article provides an overview of the failover group feature with best practices and recommendations to use with Azure SQL Managed Instance. The failover groups feature allows you to manage the ...

Truly Asynchronous. Built from the ground-up using async/await for maximum concurrency. Compile-time checked queries (if you want). See SQLx is not an ORM. MSSQL was supported prior to version 0.7, ...