Connecting to the Default Database In order to access data in a given database, you must first connect to the database. When you start SQL*Plus, you normally connect to your default Oracle database ...

Windows 7 includes an ODBC manager that lets you connect from your desktop to a SQL server. You create a data source name (DSN) to save database setup information, so you can open a connection to ...

Figure 2. Successful Azure PowerShell Connection Output. Although this next step might have been set for other reasons, you must have a server firewall rule setup to allow incoming SQL connections ...

I log in to the server, I fire up SQL Plus, I log in, I'm dropped at a SQL> prompt, and I have not yet told it what database I want to connect to. Currently I have 3.