Several applications and services use SQL as their database storage location. Often, the application or service that needs to connect to the SQL server is not on the same physical computer as the SQL server. In such cases, you may need to embed a connection string into the application in order to establish the connection. For example, when configuring a Certification Authority (CA) to connect to Forefront Identity Manager Certificate Management (FIM CM) 2010, you need to specify a connection string. To create such a connection string, you can do the following: