When creating automation scripts to discover, add, update or remove records from a remote SQL database, you need to make sure your script can successfully connect to the database.

If you just want to get going with a code-first database, you don't even need to define a connection string -- just write your objects.

// magic commands for SQL Server connection #r "nuget: Microsoft.DotNet.Interactive.SqlServer, *-*" Only then can the SQL connection string be used to create a Polyglot SQL subkernel.

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 ...

Based on your connection string, you are using Excel 2007 or greater. But I guess that is apparent too by the .xlsx file extension. Did you verify the FilePath variable is correct?

Windows 7 includes an ODBC manager that lets you connect from your desktop to a SQL server. You create a data source name (DSN) to save database setup information, so you can open a connection to th ...

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 ...