OLE DB Driver for SQL Server allows ambiguity in connection strings to maintain backward compatibility (for example, some keywords may be specified more than once, and conflicting keywords may be ...

The Connection Properties dialog opens. For my sample ITworld application, I changed the data source to Microsoft SQL Server (SQLClient), and entered the necessary Server, Log On, and database values.

I’m experiencing an error while attempting to connect my .NET 8.0 application, running in a Linux environment, to a SQL Server database. The issue persists even with a valid connection string, and 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 ...

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 information for our connection. If you've got those four ...

If you're working in a code-first mode, this element eliminates the need for you to define a database and create a connection string for your DbContext object. Instead, the first time you access your ...