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How to read data, submit queries from vb application to a remote machine running sql server.
Please note: I have created a complete functional version of a stock control system with the database residing in the local machine. I just need the basic concept of interacting with remote databases that’s all. Do we have to use sockets to read/send data ?
All you need to do is change your connection string to the remote db server and make sure that the server is actually listening. (Link assumes 2005 but 2k, 2k8+ config will be similar and easily Googled for…) You definitely DO NOT have to write special code for this.
Check out http://connectionstrings.com/ for a handy reference for the different types of connection strings in different situations.