Some OLE DB Driver for SQL Server APIs use connection strings to specify connection attributes. Connection strings are a list of keyword and associated values; each keyword identifies a particular ...

Today’s README file explains how to create connection strings to SQL Server databases using Visual Studio’s built-in tools. To provide an example using real source, I created a simple Winforms ...

I’m experiencing an error while attempting to connect my .NET 8.0 application, running in a Linux environment, to a SQL Server database. The issue persists even ...

We have our SQL server configured to only allow Windows accounts (i.e. not mixed). However, in some cases we are connecting from non-domain boxes and we want to specify a domain account to connect to ...

Unfortunately, not every SQL database is always available when we expect it to be. When you're creating automation scripts to discover, add, update or remove records from a remote SQL database, you ...

If you just want to get going with a code-first database, you don't even need to define a connection string -- just write your objects. After you install Entity Framework in your application, if you ...