OLE DB Driver for SQL Server allows ambiguity in connection strings to maintain backward compatibility (for example, some keywords may be specified more than once, and conflicting keywords may be ...

It may not be immediately obvious, but you cannot set your own connection string properties when connecting to SQL Server using the built-in SQL Server connector from either Power BI or a modern data ...

Hello, i'm experiencing a weird issue using latest version of mono with Visual Studio 8 (Preview) on macos (Latest) I have a simple application that fetch some data from Sql Server Azure DB using ...

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 ...

Please note that Integrated Security=false was set in the connection string used above, as the example uses SQL Server Authentication. If Windows Authentication is used, this must be adapted.

We have our SQL server configured to only allow Windows accounts (i.e. not mixed). However, in some cases we are connecting from non-domain boxes and we want to specify a domain account to connect ...

If you just want to get going with a code-first database, you don't even need to define a connection string -- just write your objects.

Based on your connection string, you are using Excel 2007 or greater. But I guess that is apparent too by the .xlsx file extension. Did you verify the FilePath variable is correct?