Top "Connection-string" questions

A string containing information necessary for connecting to a service, usually database.

SQL Server instance name with IP address

I have a very strange situation happening and I'm hoping someone here knows why. I have TCP/IP enabled for …

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How to connect to a redis server via Unix domain socket using hedis in Haskell?

I'm looking for how to connect to a redis server via Unix domain socket using hedis, as advertised in the …

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Set the application ConnectionString in the Service Configuration instead of web.config in Azure

I have an application currently in Azure and whenever we push it into the Staging segment, we cannot truly test …

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Is there a difference between (local), '.' and localhost?

I've used all three of these when making local programmatic connections to databases. Is there any real difference between them?

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Code first migrations - what connection string will it use?

Code first migrations have been working very well for me. I have a services project and a wpf project. The …

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Error connecting to Data Source in SSRS

I am trying to connect to Datasource but getting this error: An error occurred during local report processing. An error …

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The provider did not return a ProviderManifest instance

when I want to configure my Datasource (EntityDataSource1) and assign the connectionString that is generated automatically by entity data model …

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Oracle Connection String With Windows Authentication

We have a requirement to make our products work on Oracle as well as SQL Server (around which they were …

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How to make SQL*Net connect string from tnsnames.ora entry?

I am creating a data source on a reporting tool of IBM (Cognos). That asks SQL*Net connect string. Following …

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Set DSN encoding for ODBC Driver 11 for SQL Server on Windows 10

TL;TR How force this ODBC driver to encode in UTF-8? Detailed description I'm writing PHP 5. 5. application which connects to …

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