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 ...

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 ...

According to everything I've read this is the correct connection string for an XLSX file. ... today I had to update a C# app I wrote 3 years ago that reads in an Excel file into a SQL Server table.