You can use VB.NET or C# to write procedural code and create user-defined types and aggregates in SQL Server.

SQL Server sample databases were always delivered with the product. Not so in SQL Server 2008. Microsoft decided to de-couple the dependency and have us download the samples for free from codepex.com.

Java, SQL Server and JDBC tutorial In this Microsoft SQL Server and JDBC tutorial, you'll learn how to connect to a Microsoft SQL Server in Java using JDBC. The steps are relatively straightforward: ...