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 ...

Dynamic SQL lets you create a query string based off of user input. SQL Server allows you to create dynamic SQL statements. The statements use a SQL string varchar data type, then you execute the ...

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 ...

Ok, I'm trying to write a query in a stored procedure in SQL Server 2000. Because some of the parts of the query vary based on certain situations I construct a string that contains the query and ...

Enter the connection string at the top of the form. The default connection string is stored in the ConnectionString application setting of the SQLQueryResult_CodeGen project. For a database query, ...

For this article, we're only going to be demonstrating SQL authentication. If your database is set up with Windows authentication, the code we're about to cover will not work. We'll first need to ...

That capability is enhanced in SQL Server 2016, the first-ever version that lets developers query within JSON strings as if the JSON were organized into individual columns. What's more, you can read ...

Please note that Integrated Security=false was set in the connection string used above, as the example uses SQL Server Authentication. If Windows Authentication is used, this must be adapted. To ...

Joey on SQL Server. A Deep Dive into SQL Server 2022's Query Performance Features, Part 1. An update to the cardinality estimator feature in SQL Server 2022 will be one of the biggest changes to ...