C#

using System.Data.SqlClient;

string ConnString = "User id = sa; Password = yourPassword; Initial Catalog = yourDataBaseName; Data Source = computerName";

SqlConnection sqlConn = new SqlConnection(ConnString);
sqlConn.Open();
SqlCommand cmd = sqlConn.CreateCommand();
cmd.CommandText = "SELECT column FROM table";

SqlDataReader reader = cmd.ExecuteReader();

while(reader.Read())
{
     string someVariable = reader[0].ToString();
}

sqlConn.Close();

you.suck = (you.passion != Programming)

while (true)
{
    // do some work
    // Sleep one second
    // check stop set? if true, then break
}

static volatile bool running = false;
...
running = true;
while (running)
{
}