SQL Server Management Studio can help take the guesswork out of creating connection strings for PowerShell applications.

Some APIs in OLE DB Driver for SQL Server use connection strings to specify connection attributes. Connection strings are a list of keyword and associated values; each keyword identifies a particular ...

The mssql-python driver supports the following connection string keywords when connecting to SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and SQL database in Microsoft Fabric. The ...

Connection pooling improves application performance by reusing database connections instead of creating new ones for each request. Opening a connection involves multiple time-consuming steps: The ...

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 ...

The pool attempts to find an idle connection. If no idle connection is available and the pool hasn't reached its maximum size, a new connection is created. If the pool is at maximum capacity, the call ...

Windows authentication is required when SQL Server needs filesystem access, but it prevents embedding credentials in the connection string. RemoteApp applications run under the context of the ...

The sample data in SQL is provided by Microsoft's AdventureWorks training database, which can be provided both on your own SQL server and directly as an Azure SQL Database. Microsoft provides ...