Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 Unleashed

Creating a New SQL Server Database

Data connections are physical connections to a database. In Server Explorer, the Data Connections node has a list of every established database connection. To start the database creation process, right-click the Data Connections node and select the Create New SQL Server Database option. In the resulting dialog box (see Figure 21.1), you need to provide a server name, login credentials, and a name for the new database.

Figure 21.1 Creating a new SQL Server database.

This immediately creates the indicated database and add a connection to the new database under the Data Connections node. Figure 21.2 shows the newly ...