server, login, database, and other connection properties. Stephen Glasskeys The Connection Properties dialog opens. For my sample ITworld application, I changed the data source to Microsoft SQL ...

Microsoft has released a temporary fix for a known issue impacting Windows apps using ODBC database ... fail to connect to databases via connections using Microsoft's ODBC SQL Server driver.

Unfortunately, not every SQL database is always available when we expect ... and then pass that credential to the server and attempt to connect to the database. Test-SqlConnection -ServerName ...