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 ...

It may not be immediately obvious, but you cannot set your own connection string properties when connecting to SQL Server using the built-in SQL Server connector from either Power BI or a modern data ...

Firstly, we need a connection string to connect to database.This connection string contain the information about the server to which we are going to connect. Now, we have to create an instance of the ...

In .NET Core applications, the default connection string provider implementation searches the appsettings.json file in the current directory and reads connection strings from the file’s ...

Unlike programming in python for example, when using SQL there are many times when you need to open several connections to a server with different usernames due to permissions to access/alter things ...

As I understand it if you are using mirroring on SQL server and have failover setup you can adjust the connection strings of your applications that use it so they know the name of the other server ...

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 ...

For this article, we're only going to be demonstrating SQL authentication. If your database is set up with Windows authentication, the code we're about to cover will not work. We'll first need to ...