Untangle SQL Server connection strings Today’s README file explains how to create connection strings to SQL Server databases using Visual Studio’s built-in tools.

He shows the new utilities and code used to configure SQL Server 2005, including demonstrations of code used to create the new SqlConnectionStringBuilder. You'll learn how to discover data source ...

PolyBase, a data virtualization feature for SQL Server, allows users to seamlessly query data from various external sources directly using T-SQL (Transact-SQL) without the need for separate client ...

Visual Studio .NET tools interface nicely with the database, and the code runs on Windows Server 2003.” The server’s high scalability, he says, is also beneficial. “We have four terabytes of database ...