>>>...the connection string specifies both the Driver and the Server.
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>>lcConnString = "Driver={SQL Server};Server=(local);TrustedConnection=True">>I was confusing the connection string with a sample connection string in the VFP and SQL Server book, which was:
>>"DSN=northwind;UID=sa;PWD;DATABASE=northwind"
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>>Thank you for very much for clarifying it for me.
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>Ah, yes. I forgot about that form of the Connection String. If you have an existing DSN, the Driver and Server, along with other properties, are read from there.
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>I've mostly gotten away from creating DSNs, because connection strings can be so much more flexible.
I presume that since the book I use was published in 2000, the syntax you describe was not yet available.
Follow up question (I promise to stop asking, today <g>). Does using Connection String without DSN make the data access faster? Or this is just for easier installation/setup?
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