MS Access is a popular desktop database application that allows users to store and manage large amounts of data. However, as data grows, users may find Access slowing down or becoming unwieldy. To ...

Microsoft Access provides tools that make it relatively easy to load data from a variety of external data sources and in many different formats. There is no connection type specific to Microsoft SQL ...

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 the ...

Microsoft announced roadmap shift on Monday, indicating that it will focus on supporting the Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) approach for SQL Server application programming interfaces (APIs) in the ...

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 ...