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 ...

I have someone using WebMatrix to connect to a remote MySQL database. But they can only access the database over an SSH tunnel... so the connection goes something like this: This works with MySQLcc, ...

Unfortunately, not every SQL database is always available when we expect it to be. When you're creating automation scripts to discover, add, update or remove records from a remote SQL database, you ...