With a few clicks, the legendary engine was humming on his machine. No longer buried under messy files, Alex built a fortress of organized tables and lightning-fast queries. His application became the talk of Data-Land, and he lived happily ever after—never having spent a single coin to get started. How to start your own story:

Once upon a time in the digital kingdom of Data-Land, a young developer named Alex had a big dream: to build an application that could remember everything. But there was a problem. Alex’s "memory" (a messy collection of text files) was falling apart.

– The free tool you'll need to actually "talk" to your database.

If you want to follow in Alex's footsteps, you can download the official free versions directly from Microsoft :

: "This is smaller and lighter," the guide continued. "You can use it for small real-world projects. It is free to use even when you start selling your wares, as long as your data doesn't grow too large."