Lowell (1/28/2013)
in our case, we have a config file that has the connection string information, and a single row table that contains a lot of settings relevant to the application that uses that database.I don't think you really want to store the connection info in the database, without also storing it outside of the database(how would you open teh conneciton to read the connection info) , but application type settings, you bet.
I too have this type of setup in a number of applications. I have also added an instead of trigger to most of these applications to prevent adding/deleting. It can only have 1 row. 😀
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