If you're on a network with multiple servers, it may be easier to enter the server name rather than expand the drop-down list of servers. If you click the drop-down list, it may take a lot of time to ...

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 ...

It may not be immediately obvious, but you cannot set your own connection string properties when connecting to SQL Server using the built-in SQL Server connector from either Power BI or a modern data ...

Take advantage of the open source library Serilog to log your ASP.NET Core application’s data to SQL Server or another database target. Logging is an essential feature for any application, as it ...

The SQL Server connection using Azure AD authentication will not be shared when an app is shared. This is similar to how authentication works for Office 365 Outlook, SharePoint and other Azure AD ...

Q&A. Data Virtualization in SQL Server 2022. By David Ramel; 05/07/2024; PolyBase, a data virtualization feature for SQL Server, allows users to seamlessly query data from various external sources ...

By Madhukar Moogala With the advent of the modern .NET platform, we've received queries from customers about loading SQL data client libraries onto the AutoCAD runtime. This post aims to address those ...

Naming Your Data Source and Specifying SQL Options When you first access the SAS ODBC Driver Configuration dialog, the General page is at the foreground, as shown in SAS ODBC Driver Configuration ...

Microsoft also plans to end support in SQL Server 2022 for Cloudera and Hortonworks external data sources. Organizations should switch to SQL Server 2022's "new object storage integration" instead.

This topic shows you how to connect to a **Microsoft SQL Server** data source from the **Choose a Data Source** or **Choose a Destination** page of the SQL Server Import and Export Wizard. There are ...