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 ...

Below is a cheat sheet for creating SQL Server client connection strings and finding them in common configuration files. Connecting to instances by name, forcing a named pipes connection.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...