SQL Server Management Studio should be launched after connecting to a SQL Server instance. As soon as you run SSMS for the first time, the Connect to Server window appears. Object Explorer > Connect > ...

The Microsoft OLE DB Provider is an SQL tool that enables developers to write code that provides an application with ADO access to an SQL database.

What are the advantages of using Access as the front end to a SQL Server database? For starters, it's likely that your client's users will be more familiar with it, and it's relatively easy to put ...

We will now use a similar technique that I covered when I created the SQL server login to create the database user account on the ServerInventory database. But before we do that, let's quickly look at ...