For a bit of background I actually have the MSDE 2000 installed with the Enterprise Management tools installed from the SQL 2000 Evaluation version. I have the SQL Service Pack 1 installed. I don't ...

As I understand it if you are using mirroring on SQL server and have failover setup you can adjust the connection strings of your applications that use it so they ...

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 ...

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 ...

Illustration: Elizabeth Hinshaw Dr. Thomas W. Shinder, a Microsoft-certified system engineer, is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional and author of books on Microsoft Internet Security and ...