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 ...

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 ...

The next step is to create an SQL subkernel with the SQL connection string in a C# cell: #!connect mssql --kernel-name DemoKernel @csharp:connectionString ...

In this third example, you use a DSN-less connection to connect to the data source. In this type of connection, you specify all necessary information (the driver, the server, the database name, and ...

options => options. EnableRetryOnFailure ()); } If you’re using Azure SQL Database, EF Core already provides the resiliency and retry logic for your database.