What are the advantages of using Access as the front end to a SQL Server database? For starters, it's likely that your client's users will be more familiar with it, and it's relatively easy to put ...

Use custom-built .NET Framework 4.0 classes to connect an ASP.NET Web application to a SQL Server 2012 database.

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I'm trying to start/stop MS SQL Service on various DB servers (locally) but we don't always know the name of the instance (Always only 1 SQL Server running on a single server).