---
title: "The ultimate connection string reference"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/8/25/the-ultimate-connection-string-reference.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/8/25/the-ultimate-connection-string-reference.html"
published: "2003-08-25T17:19:00"
updated: "2003-08-25T17:19:00"
tags: [".Net Original", "Cool sites"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "This is the most complete reference of any connection string you'll ever need: http://www.connectionstrings.com/"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# The ultimate connection string reference

By Roy Osherove August 25, 2003 In [.Net Original](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-original), [Cool sites](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-sites)

**Historical article** · Originally published August 25, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

This is the most complete reference of any connection string you'll ever need:

[http://www.connectionstrings.com/](http://www.connectionstrings.com/)

## More in .Net Original

[All posts in .Net Original](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-original)

- Sep 1, 2003

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- Aug 25, 2003

    ### [Loading Winform UI controls from a different AppDomain is problematic](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/8/25/loading-winform-ui-controls-from-a-different-appdomain-is-pr.html)

- Aug 25, 2003

    ### [Combobox binding trouble - with a solution](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/8/25/combobox-binding-trouble-with-a-solution.html)

- Aug 24, 2003

    ### [Some debugging tips](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/8/24/some-debugging-tips.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
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- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/