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 ...

To access the files on the server, each employee and user must initiate a remote connection to the server over an active Internet signal.

Untangle SQL Server connection strings Today’s README file explains how to create connection strings to SQL Server databases using Visual Studio’s built-in tools.

The CONNECT statement establishes a connection with the DBMS. You establish a connection to send DBMS-specific SQL statements to the DBMS or to retrieve DBMS data. The connection remains in effect ...

In this example, you use an alias to connect to a Microsoft SQL Server database and select a subset of data from the payroll table. The SAS/ACCESS engine uses OLE DB Services to connect to OLE DB ...

What are the advantages of using Access as the front end to a SQL Server database? For starters, it's likely that your client's users will be more familiar with it, and it's relatively easy to put ...

SQL lets you use one command to quickly create a new table containing a subset of records from a larger table while working in Access. Sound complicated? It's not, as Mary Ann Richardson shows us.