I don't know about a tutorial, but connection can be achieved following these instructions:
You need the next headers in every class you want to use connections or anything:
Imports System.Data
Imports System.Data.SqlClient
You wil need a connection object, this comes from the aforementioned headers:
Dim conn As New SqlConnection("your connection string here")
When you want to open the connection use conn.Open() and conn.Close() for the opposite.
Connection should be open when you issue commands to SQL Server. Never forget to close.
For more information regarding what your connection string should be, go to
http://www.connectionstrings.com/sql-server/[
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Most of the time the template of the connection string will be:
"Server=myServerAddress;Database=myDataBase;User Id=myUsername;
Password=myPassword;"
There are different commands to perform the different tasks you want on a database; sometimes you want to do an INSERT, DELETE or UPDATE, you may want to select a single value, or retrieve a table result set. These answers are out of the scope of this question, so I suggest you issue yet another question.