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 ...

Learn how connection resiliency in the ODBC Driver transparently restores connections and improves application behavior when the server closes idle connections. The connection resiliency feature is ...

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 ...