SQL Server Management Studio can help take the guesswork out of creating connection strings for PowerShell applications.

This article lists every connection string keyword that Microsoft.Data.SqlClient accepts. Each keyword also has a matching SqlConnectionStringBuilder property. For an introduction, common patterns, ...

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 ...

This article describes breaking changes between Microsoft ODBC Driver 18 for SQL Server and version 17. Use it when you choose a driver version, upgrade an application from version 17 to version 18, ...

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 ...

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 ...