For this article, we're only going to be demonstrating SQL authentication. If your database is set up with Windows authentication, the code we're about to cover will not work. We'll first need to ...

You will fail to connect to your database if the SQL Server service is not running. If you try running the SQL Server service from the Services.msc app, you will ...

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 ...