connection-string

As we do not implement the users of our applications as users in SQL server, when the application server connects to a database each application always uses the same credentials to attach to each database. This presents an auditing problem. Using triggers, we want to store every update, insert and delete and attribute each to a particular user. One possible solution is to add an "updated by user" column to every table and update this every time. This means a new column on every table and a new parameter on every stored procedure. It also means you can only do soft deletes. Instead of this I

For given Connection instance how do I find out url that the Connection uses to connect the database ? Is it somewhere in Properties returned by Connection.getClientInfo() method? If there you need me to provide clearer description all comments are welcome. Thank you Connection has the getMetaData() to return DatabaseMetaData . DatabaseMetaData has the getURL() to return the URL for this DBMS. Lucas de Oliveira I believe you can use the DatabaseMetaData object from the Connection and then get the URL. Try: DatabaseMetaData dmd = connection.getMetaData(); String url = dmd.getURL(); Mehdi Inside

I have looked around online for a while now and found many similar problems but for some reason I can't seem to get this working. I am just trying to connect to a SQL server database and output the query results to a file - See PowerShell script below. What I am uncertain about is how to integrate the User ID and Password into the connection string. $SQLServer = "aaaa.database.windows.net" $SQLDBName = "Database" $uid ="john" $pwd = "pwd123" $SqlQuery = "SELECT * from table;" $SqlConnection = New-Object System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection $SqlConnection.ConnectionString = "Server = $SQLServer;

I'm trying to create a program in C# that should be able to create, backup and restore a SQL Server database. For this, the user needs to be able to setup a connection string to the desired SQL Server (and database). I would like to use the same dialog as for example Visual Studio for creating the connection string. Is this possible? Damith Note: The dialog component referred to below is no longer available for download. Unless you have retrieved it in the past, you will probably not get this answer's sample code to work. Alternative: There is now a different DataConnectionDialog available on