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 ...

Unfortunately, not every SQL database is always available when we expect it to be. When you're creating automation scripts to discover, add, update or remove records from a remote SQL database, you ...

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 ...

I'm attempting to connect to an excel file using an ADO recordset. There is a column in this that I need the sum of for a report. I'm familiar with ADO connections, so I assumed this would be the most ...

When deploying SQL Servers and when you need to implement some of kind of business intelligence, chances are you're going to need a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) catalog. A SSIS catalog is a ...

If you just want to get going with a code-first database, you don't even need to define a connection string -- just write your objects. After you install Entity Framework in your application, if you ...