Find out how to troubleshoot connection problems. View steps to take when you can't use TCP/IP to connect to a SQL Server Database Engine on a single server. These steps aren't in the order of the ...

Learn about the various handshakes and authentication sequences during the connection process to the SQL Server Database Engine. This article presents several examples of a network trace that captures ...

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 ...

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

I don't know much about Borland other than that I used their free compiler for my C class and most everything they seem to have these days is discontinued and depreciated.<BR><BR>The BDE doesn't seem ...

Today, at its Ignite conference in Orlando, Microsoft is announcing the general availability of a new version of its flagship operational database, SQL Server 2017. SQL Server is a product I have ...

Do you need to find out where the location of your SQL Server's database is? Use this quick tip from Arthur Fuller to show you how. Sometimes your application needs to know the specific directory ...