Welcome to the new SQL Server Protocols team blog site. SQL Server 2005 (aka Yukon) will be released with an impressive list of new features and capabilities and I'd like to highlight some of the enhancements to the connectivity/protocols layer of SQL...

On November 30, 2005, Srik presented in a webcast an introduction to SQL 2005 native xml web services. The webcast highlighted the ease of exposing existing stored procedures and functions as webmethods. It also described the ability to manage each of...

Greetings to the Developer community: Microsoft SQL Server team has been interacting on a regular basis with the developers and users in the form of surveys. During the last 2 years, we completed surveys that focused on the broad SQL Connectivity components...

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 include many changes to the core operating system. This blog post is targeted at resolving the impact on SQL Server client drivers and SQL Server setup of one breaking change in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2...

Greetings to the SQL Server community: Last year in October 2009, we introduced the process of interacting on a regular basis with the developers and users in the form of surveys. During the last 12 months, we completed surveys that focused on the...

Hello reader, We have extended our SQL Connectivity Customer Survey until November 2, 2010 5:00PM PST. If you have not done so please take a moment to fill our our easy 10 question survey listed below at the link to help shape the future of SQL Server...

Recently, I worked on a customer issue. The customer encountered an "error: 26 - Error Locating Server/Instance Specified" error although he has applied/verified every steps I posted in the blog: http://www.bing.com/search?q=error+26+blog+protocol&form...

Dear SQL Server developers and users: It is this time of the year when we, in the SQL Connectivity product team, take a step back, review the priorities and goals for the long term and identify areas that will benefit from investments. We...

Some people have raised the question, "Is SOAP supported in SQL Express? How about SQL Mobile? I've read in a readme that web services isn't supported on WinXP SP2, but I've also heard that SQL 2005 web services require the HTTP.sys kernel support which...

There have been questions raised about how to make InfoPath work with SQL 2005 native web services. Some people have been hitting the following error in InfoPath when trying to use SQL 2005 native web services as a data source: WSDLOperation: The parameters...

In reference to a previous blog from Il-Sung Lee called "How to enable channel encryption" ( https://blogs.msdn.com/sql_protocols/archive/2005/10/04/476705.aspx ), I have one more comment to add. There is a special case with a client forcing encryption...