Tom Fenton shows you two ways to overcome the gotchas when setting up an ODBC connection to a remote database. This article is a follow-up to one I wrote in August 2017, "How To Set Up a SQL Express ...

Figure 2. Successful Azure PowerShell Connection Output. Although this next step might have been set for other reasons, you must have a server firewall rule setup to allow incoming SQL connections ...

The sample data in SQL is provided by Microsoft's AdventureWorks training database, which can be provided both on your own SQL server and directly as an Azure SQL Database. Microsoft provides ...

To test a SQL database connection, you'll need at least four pieces of information: the user name password, database name and endpoint (such as a DNS name or IP address). For this article, we're only ...

In my last article, Quick and Dirty with Open Office Base, I described my initial experiences with building a simple database application for my wife in Open Office Base, having had no prior ...