When trying to connect to SQL Server running in a Docker container in WSL I am unable to connect using localhost as the server name. I can, however, connect using 127.0.0.1 or ::1. The application is ...

I am doing the basic setup for orchard core and am getting "The provided connection string is invalid or server is unreachable." This occurs when I use a remote sql connection or localhost. My ...

Today’s README file explains how to create connection strings to SQL Server databases using Visual Studio’s built-in tools. To provide an example using real source, I created a simple Winforms ...

We have our SQL server configured to only allow Windows accounts (i.e. not mixed). However, in some cases we are connecting from non-domain boxes and we want to specify a domain account to connect to ...