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 ...

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 ...

I had been passing username/password strings directly into the ADO.NET connection string, however this means that if a user has a quote character in his password, it borks the ConnectionString and ...