The Connection Properties dialog opens. For my sample ITworld application, I changed the data source to Microsoft SQL Server (SQLClient), and entered the necessary Server, Log On, and database values.

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 ...

The CONNECT statement is required when connecting to OLE DB providers by way of the SQL Pass-Through Facility. Note: Not all of these engine-connection options are supported by all OLE DB providers.

Unlike SQL Server Compact Edition, which is distributed as a set of hefty DLLs, SQLite ships in a single C source file. As the sqlite.org Web site advertises, SQLite is a software library that ...

The sample data in SQL is provided by Microsoft's AdventureWorks training database, which can be provided both on your own SQL server and directly as an Azure SQL Database. Microsoft provides ...