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 ...

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 ...

It turns out that the restriction on using your own connection string properties in the built-in SQL Server connector is a deliberate design decision on the part of the Power Query team because, ...

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 ...

When creating automation scripts to discover, add, update or remove records from a remote SQL database, you need to make sure your script can successfully connect to the database.

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.