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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Once this is configured you can connect to the database using a trusted connection string. Data Source=myServer;Initial Catalog=myDataBase;Integrated Security=SSPI; An alternate approach to creating a ...

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 ...