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using-connection-string-keywords-with-oledb-driver-for-sql-server.md

Some OLE DB Driver for SQL Server APIs use connection strings to specify connection attributes. Connection strings are a list of keyword and associated values; each keyword identifies a particular ...
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creating-a-valid-connection-string-using-tcp-ip.md

Learn how to create a valid connection string when using TCP/IP to connect to an instance of SQL Server. View examples of valid strings.
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CONNECT Statement

specifies an optional alias that has 1 to 32 characters. If you specify an alias, the keyword AS must appear before the alias. (OLE DB-connection-arguments) specifies the data source-specific ...
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How To Quickly Test a SQL Connection with PowerShell

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 ...
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How to Establish an ODBC Connection to the SQL Database

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 the ...
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Page 2: Connecting to a Microsoft SQL Server database

The sample data in SQL is provided by Microsoft's AdventureWorks training database, which can be provided both on your own SQL server and directly as an Azure SQL Database. Microsoft provides ...
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VBA: Connection string results in "External table is not in the expected format"

I'm attempting to connect to an excel file using an ADO recordset. There is a column in this that I need the sum of for a report. I'm familiar with ADO connections, so I assumed this would be the most ...