Include Application Name in Connection Strings

In addition to the SQL Server, Database, User ID and Password, you may want to include the Application Name in your connection string parameters. Application Name is an optional argument, but it can greatly help you to segregate the SQL that your application is executing from any other database calls that are being sent from other applications/processes.

Data Source=myServer;
Initial Catalog=myDB;
User Id=myUsername;
Password=myPassword;
Application Name=myApp;

In example:

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