96 I have downloaded the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 2016 to recover a huge .bak file which is an old backup of a database. But first of all I need to connect to a DB Server. After install, I execute SSMS and it asks me to connect to a DB Server.
When I installed SQL Server 2008, I had it use SQLEXPRESS as the local instance name. As far as I can tell, through SQL Server Configuration Manager, SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. When I went to the help link it mentions, the help page suggests the following:
After installation you need to connect to Server Name : localhost to start using the local instance of SQL Server. Once you are connected to the local instance, right click on Databases and create a new database.
For me I installed SQL Server Express with the default instance named MSSQLSERVER and mixed-mode Authentication (both an SA user and my local Windows account). In SQL Server Configuration Manager expand SQL Server Network Configuration (NOT SQL Native Client vXX.0 Configuration) > select Protocols for MSSQLSERVER > Enable TCP/IP.
I tried every way to connect Visual Studio's Server Explorer to LocalDB. The wizard cannot locate (localdb) or cannot find any provider in Server Explorer to accept connection string like (localdb)\v11.0;Integrated Security=true; I've seen this asked several places in StackOverflow but no answer works or marked as answer.
Sqlcmd -u username -p password assumes a username & password for the SQL Server already setup Alternatively how can I setup a user account from command prompt? I've SQL Server 2008 Express on a Windows Server 2008 machine, if that relates.
The other parts are depending on how you install - if you install with an instance name - then you need to spell that instance name out (SQL Server Express by default uses the SQLEXPRESS instance name, while other editions of SQL Server will try to use the default instance without any special name).
71 sqlalchemy, a db connection module for Python, uses SQL Authentication (database-defined user accounts) by default. If you want to use your Windows (domain or local) credentials to authenticate to the SQL Server, the connection string must be changed.
Answer 1: SQL Server Management Studio can be used to manage either local or remote SQL database server. If you installed SQL Server Express, the default instance will be SQLExpress. To connect it locally using Windows Credential, just type .\SQLExpress or yourmachinename\SQLExpress in the server name textbox. If you host the SQL Server on a remote server, you must use the credential given by ...
