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 the ...

The content of any website for a business or organization comprises data, including text, images, media and numerical values. Using a database to store this data is an efficient approach for many ...

Take advantage of connection resiliency in EF Core to detect errors and retry commands and enable your ASP.NET Core application to overcome transient faults. A high-quality application must be stable, ...

Unfortunately, not every SQL database is always available when we expect it to be. When you're creating automation scripts to discover, add, update or remove records from a remote SQL database, you ...

A connection to a database is a resource intensive operation that typically comprises a few steps. A channel of communication between the application and the database should be established before the ...

Microsoft announced the public preview availability of Microsoft Graph data connect during Ignite. Here's why you should be paying attention. With all the buzz around Microsoft’s Ignite Conference ...