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Connect to another database

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- [Instructor] LINQPad can connect to many different data sources. I'm showing a few of them here in this query window. Of course we can connect to SQL Server. We can also connect to SQL Server running in Azure and SQL Server Compact edition. As you can see, there are other vendors here like Oracle SQL White, and MySQL. If you've got data in Azure table storage, you can connect to that. Plus a lot of other connection types including third party ORMS. We're going to connect to a SQL Server Compact edition database file. And then we'll look at how to connect to a database running in SQL Server LocalDB. If you're not familiar with LocalDB, it's the version of SQL Server included with visual studio and it's intended for development purposes. These are not the connections you use for the course exercises, or just seeing how to add other database connections to LINQPad. So we'll click over here on the add connection link,…

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