25.5. Database Operation with Microsoft SQL Server

25.5.1. Connecting to a Database

Microsoft SQL Server (including MSDE) ships with various ready-made databases you can work with. In SQL Server Enterprise Manager, the available databases and those you will create are listed in a node called Databases. To display the list of databases, you can click the Databases node as shown in Fig. 25.28.

Fig. 25.28. Displaying list of databases
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If you are not trying to connect to one particular database, you do not need to locate and click any. If you are attempting to connect to a specific database, in SQL Server Enterprise Manager, ...

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