The ADO.NET classes for connecting to your local Microsoft SQL Server can also connect to Azure SQL Database. However, by themselves the ADO.NET classes cannot provide all the robustness and ...

Important We recommend using Windows authentication wherever possible. Windows authentication uses a series of encrypted messages to authenticate users in SQL Server. When SQL Server logins are used, ...

The SQL Server managed provider supports connection pooling by default and the developer needs to put in minimum effort. We just need to modify the connection string to override default settings for ...

Using Microsoft's ADO.NET Entity Framework, developers can create an entity relationship model of the database (ie SQL Server) inside Visual Studio 2008.

DataDirect Connect for ADO.NET now supports Oracle 11g R2, SQL Server 2008, and DB2 iSeries V6R1. A complete list of database provider features is available online.