This article teaches you how to connect to an Always On availability group listener for SQL Server. An availability group listener is a virtual network name that clients use to connect to a database ...

A read-only MCP server for SQL Server databases, built with .NET 10 and the official ModelContextProtocol C# SDK. Connect any MCP-compatible AI agent to your SQL Server instance and let it explore ...

The 2002 release of the original .NET Framework shipped ADO.NET and System.Data.SqlClient, the driver for SQL Server that gave .NET applications a standard connection approach. Over the years, updates ...

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 ...

You told us that applications using Microsoft.Data.SqlClient can take too long to establish the database connections they need. When many requests need connections at the same time, waiting for the ...