You create a data source name (DSN) to save database setup information, so you can open a connection to the SQL Server database without re-entering the server information.

Take advantage of connection resiliency in EF Core to detect errors and retry commands and enable your ASP.NET Core application to overcome transient faults.

Untangle SQL Server connection strings Today’s README file explains how to create connection strings to SQL Server databases using Visual Studio’s built-in tools.

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 ...

Learn how to use the Azure Portal to create a cloud-based SQL database with just a few mouse clicks.

How to Transfer Data in Web Form to a Database. Moving information from an HTML form into a database is a two-step design process. First, create an entry HTML form capable of passing information ...

Use this guide to learn how to easily create and manage a MySQL 8 user with remote access to all databases.

The UseSqlServer extension method is used to register the SQL Server database provider with the Entity Framework Core runtime.

If you plan to do database development with Java and MySQL, the first thing you’ll need to do is configure a database schema. Technically speaking, the first thing to do before you configure a schema ...