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With Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010, you can connect to a variety of databases, including Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, and other databases that are accessible by using the OLE DB protocol. By default, your Microsoft SharePoint site does not contain any database connections.
Overview. Access 2010 and Access Services provide a platform for you to create databases that you can use on a SharePoint site. You design and publish a web database by using Access 2010 and Access Services, and people who have accounts on the SharePoint site use the web database in a web browser.
How to query SharePoint list data using SQL?
Does anyone know how to fetch Sharepoint List data using sql query based on the particular sharepoint user. You cannot use should not really be using SQL to get data from SharePoint list.
Is it possible to expose SQL data in SharePoint Online?
This was easy to use, as it only required creating a connection from the SharePoint Business Data Connectivity Service to the local SQL server. However, as organizations who have used this feature begin to migrate to Office 365 they are left with the dilemma of whether they need to seek alternatives or abandon this functionality all together.
How can I specify an external SQL Server database?
To specify the SQL Server database for the external content type, click Click here to discover external data sources and define operations. Click Add Connection, select SQL Server in the External Data Source Type Selection dialog box, and then click OK.
The external list communicates with SharePoint and determines what External Content Type is set up to support this list The External Content Type has a Data Source tied to it that instructs the BCS on how to connect to, and the operations that are supported for, this External Content Type