Hi Daniel,
According to this page
http://www.connectionstrings.com/
It looks like you need to do
"Data Source=abc.def.hij,8823;Initial Catalog=foobat;User
ID=car;Password=rat";
> How do i change this connect string to support a SQL Server 2000 running
> on
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> of
> these work

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