I have SQL Server 2008 installed with Visual Studio 2010, I have downloaded a project which has database files created in Visual Studio project itself, now I want to connect to that database.
I tried changing the connection string but unable to connect to the database.
Can anyone tell me how to connect to the database, I have SQL Server 2008 (10.0.1600.22) installed on my machine
Updated connection string:
Here is the connection string I am using
Data Source=SQLEXPRESS\;Initial Catalog=INVENTORY;uid=xxx;pwd=xxx
where xxx\xxx
is my machine and my installed SQL Server instance name respectively.
Are you using C#?
try this:
using namespace System.Data.SqlClient;
SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection("Data source = [ip]; Initial catalog = [db name]; User id = [user name]; password = [password]");
con.Open();
set a breakpoint at con.Open(), if it succeeds and passed this line, that means you have successfully connected to the database.
After that, you may want to execute a SQL Command try this:
SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("[command]", con);
// if the command has no return value
cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
//else you might want a Sql data reader to read the return value
SqlDataReader read = cmd.ExecuteReader();
while(read.Read())
{
//do something
}