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 ...

In this type of connection, you specify all necessary information (the driver, the server, the database name, and the user ID) in the connection string. Use the native OLE DB provider for SQL ...

In this third example, you use a DSN-less connection to connect to the data source. In this type of connection, you specify all necessary information (the driver, the server, the database name, and ...

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 ...

In this third example, you use a DSN-less connection to connect to the data source. In this type of connection, you specify all necessary information (the driver, the server, the database name, and ...

The next step is to create an SQL subkernel with the SQL connection string in a C# cell: #!connect mssql --kernel-name DemoKernel @csharp:connectionString Users of the notebook can now either use ...