In this course you will learn all about the Structured Query Language ("SQL".) We will review the origins of the language and its conceptual foundations. But primarily, we will focus on learning all ...

Microsoft today introduced the launch of Azure Data Lake Analytics, a new cloud-based service for running queries on big data stored in the Microsoft’s growing public cloud. It uses a new ...

Microsoft at its Professional Developers Conference (PDC) next month will discuss a variety of upcoming technologies, including Visual Basic 9.0 and the .Net Language Integrated Query Framework.

Language Integrated Query (LINQ) for .NET and its System.Query, System.Data.DLink, and System.Xml.XLink classes enable relational-to-object and XML-to-object mapping with first-class CLR data types.

Peter Vogel introduces a new column on application development in the real world, and begins by advocating for Language Integrated Query. Welcome to Practical .NET, a new column offering how-to ...

LINQ (Language Integrated Query) is a query execution pipeline that adds query capabilities to languages targeted at the managed environment of .Net. LINQ to SQL is an ORM (Object Relational Mapper) ...