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 ...

In this third example, you use a DSN-less connection to connect to the data source. In this type of connection, you specify all necessary information (the driver, the server, the database name, and ...

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 ...

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

To test a SQL database connection, you'll need at least four pieces of information: the user name password, database name and endpoint (such as a DNS name or IP address). For this article, we're only ...

Windows 7 includes an ODBC manager that lets you connect from your desktop to a SQL server. You create a data source name (DSN) to save database setup information, so you can open a connection to ...

What I think I need to do is create an ODBC connection between a computer that has the Access file and the computer running the SQL Server.

Creating SQL Stored Procedures via SQL Server is easier than you might have originally thought, so let us explain what to do.

PolyBase, a data virtualization feature for SQL Server, allows users to seamlessly query data from various external sources directly using T-SQL (Transact-SQL) without the need for separate client ...