There have been questions raised about how to make InfoPath work with SQL 2005 native web services. Some people have been hitting the following error in InfoPath when trying to use SQL 2005 native web services as a data source: WSDLOperation: The parameters...

Networking protocols are disabled by default in SQL Server Express. The error message you will get when trying to connect from SQL Native Client will look like this “An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server when connecting...

There are a few different encryption options for SQL Server 2005 By default using SQL Native Client your login packet will be encrypted over the wire so as to not disclose your password. This encryption is supported by a self-signed & self-generated...

Just as normal connections to SQL server support SQL user credentials, when logging into SQL 2005 through Native Web Services SQL user credentials can be used as well. This is done by utilizing the SOAP Headers functionality of SOAP. Please see SQL...