Welcome to the world's largest collection of connection strings on the Internet! 

On this web page, you'll find links to sample ADO and ADO.NET connection strings for .NET Data Providers,  OLE DB Providers, and ODBC Drivers (DSN/DSN-Less), from Microsoft, Oracle, and many other companies.

These sample connection strings are compiled by Carl Prothman.

Table of Contents

•  .NET Data Providers             
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • MySQL - From CoreLab
  • ODBC Providers
  • OLE DB Providers
  • Oracle Provider - From Microsoft
  • Oracle Provider - From Oracle
  • Oracle Provider - From CoreLab
  • Postgre SQL Direct - From CoreLab
  • Sybase ASE
  • Vista DB
       
•  OLE DB Data Providers         
  • Active Directory Service
  • Advantage
  • AS/400 (from IBM)
  • AS/400 and VSAM (from Microsoft)
  • Commerce Server
  • DB2
  • DTS Packages
  • Exchange
  • Excel
  • Internet Publishing
  • Index Server
  • Microsoft Jet (Access)
  • Microsoft Project
  • MySQL                  
  • ODBC Databases
  • OLAP Services
  • Oracle (from Microsoft)
  • Oracle (from Oracle)
  • Pervasive
  • Simple Provider
  • SQLBase
  • SQL Server
  • SQL Server via SQL XML Ole Db
  • Sybase Adaptive Server Anywhere
  • Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise
  • Text Files
  • UniData and UniVerse
  • Visual FoxPro
     
•  ODBC DSN
  • DSN
  • File DSN
     
•  OLE DB Data Link
  • Data Link File (UDL)
     
•   ODBC DSN-Less        
  • Access
  • AS/400
  • dBASE
  • Excel
  • Informix
  • Interbase (from Easysoft)
  • Interbase (from InterSolv)
  • Lotus Notes
  • Mimer                  
  • MySQL                  
  • Oracle (from Microsoft)
  • Oracle (from Oracle)
  • Paradox
  • SQL Server
  • Sybase
  • Sybase SQL Anywhere
  • Text
  • TeraData
  • Visual FoxPro
     
•  Data Shape Provider
  • MS DataShape - SQL Server
     
•  ADO URL
  • ADO Recordset
     
•  MS Remote Provider
  • MS Remote - Access (Jet)
  • MS Remote - SQL Server
     
•  Remote Data Service (RDS)
  • RDS Data Control - Connect Property
  • RDS Data Control - URL Property