omid.n
omid.n

Reputation: 491

Connect to SqlServer with socket programming

I'm wondering if there is a direct way of connecting to SQL Server. In other words, How ADO.NET is connecting to SQL Server?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1784

Answers (1)

Remus Rusanu
Remus Rusanu

Reputation: 294187

For academic exercise kind of work the TDS protocol is described at Tabular Data Stream Protocol Specification and there is a free implementation at FreeTDS. Do you have any real motive to re-invent the wheel?

Upvotes: 6

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