I am trying to connect to mssql server from many days and i searched in google also many times but continuously i am failing to connect to sql server using connection string.
When i connect using ms sql server studio then it works fine but when i connect to mssql server using connection string then it fails to connect. Website where i am registerd provided me this connection string
"workstation id=chattha.mssql.somee.com;packet size=4096;user id=rizwan;pwd=censored;data source=chattha.mssql.somee.com;persist security info=False;initial catalog=chattha".
I tried these connection strings in my code
con.Open( _
"Provider = sqloledb;" & _
"Data Source=mssql.chattha.somee.com;" & _
"Initial Catalog=chattha;" & _
"User ID=rizwan;" & _
"Password=censored;")
I also tried this connection string also
con.Open("Provider=SQLOLEDB.1;Persist Security Info=False;User ID=rizwan;Password=censored;Initial Catalog=chattha;Data Source=chattha.mssql.somee.com")
Above all i tried but any of them is not working.
I tried below code also but it also did not worked.
Dim dbconn, sql, dbcomm, dbread
'dbconn = New OleDbConnection("Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;data source=" & Server.MapPath("AddressBook.mdb"))
'dbconn = New OleDbConnection("Provider = sqloledb;user id=rizwan;pwd=censored;data source=chattha.mssql.somee.com;persist security info=False;initial catalog=chattha")
dbconn = New OleDbConnection("Data Source=chattha.mssql.somee.com ;Initial Catalog='chattha';USE='rizwan';PWD='censored'")
dbconn.Open()
sql = "SELECT * FROM Table1"
dbcomm = New OleDbCommand(sql, dbconn)
dbread = dbcomm.ExecuteReader()
Table1.DataSource = dbread
Table1.DataBind()
dbread.Close()
dbconn.Close()
For experiment i added gridview and set sqlDataSource and it works fine and show records in gridview correctly. But i am failing to use connection string in code.
Note: I added this reference and working with it "Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects Library 6.1 Library.
Please help me.