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 ...

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 ...

Unfortunately, not every SQL database is always ... We'll first need to create an ODBC string. This is the string we'll eventually pass to the SqlConnetion object, which contains all of the ...

We have our SQL server configured to only allow Windows ... BR><BR>So, instead of specifying a SQL account in teh connection string, we need to specify a windows account, and since the box we ...

The SQL Server 2005 database is available in various editions: Enterprise, Standard, Workgroup, Express, Developer, and Mobile. The Enterprise Edition is for enterprise-level applications that require ...

today I had to update a C# app I wrote 3 years ago that reads in an Excel file into a SQL Server table. I'll make some assumptions here: Based on your connection string, you are using Excel 2007 ...

SQL Server 2016 adds new support for the JSON format when retrieving ... rdr As SqlDataReader Dim res As String = String.Empty cn = New SqlConnection("…connection string…") cmd = cn.CreateCommand() ...