Question

I cannot connect to my local sql server using the following line

conn = SqlConnection("server=(local);uid=tedpottel;pwd=#######;database=by")

I have security set to Windows Authentication , so my other programs (reporting services and cold fusion do not take in a password. (as long as I log in as tedpottel) So I tried

conn = SqlConnection("server=(local);database=by")

which said “failed for user””

Answer 1

If you do windows authentication, you don’t need userID and password

You need to add ;Trusted_Connection=True, it would look like this

Server=(local);Database=by;Trusted_Connection=True;

see here http://connectionstrings.com/sql-server-2008