My instance name is MSSQLSERVER and while I connect to Management Studio, I use .\MSSQLSERVER to login. I have gone through all the threads here but everyone is suggesting to enable tcp, pipes, shared memory which I have done and restarted the server too. Also I am using .\instance name as suggested. But still can't connect, and I get the following error
TITLE: Connect to Server
Cannot connect to .\MSSQLSERVER.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 25 - Connection string is not valid) (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 87)
It would be great if someone could help me with this
MSSQLSERVER is the SQL Server service name for the default instance which is the instance without any instance name - so to connect to this (unnamed) default instance, just use
.
(local)
localhost
your-machine-name
without any "instance" name (since there is NO instance name)
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I cannot connect to any remote SQL Server instances from my system. I used to connect them from SQL Server Management Studio. Moreover, I can still connect to the same SQL Servers remotely from another systems (my colleagues' system).
I am getting following error:
A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 - Could not open a connection to SQL Server) (.Net SqlClient Data Provider)
Error Number: 53
Severity: 20
State: 0
I have checked:
Named pipes/TCP is enabled.
Remote connections are allowed.
Windows Firewall is off.
Enabled everything in SQL Server Configuration Manager.
Also, I have tried everything mentioned in this post-
How do I fix the error 'Named Pipes Provider, error 40 - Could not open a connection to' SQL Server'?
But still could not solve my problem. Please suggest any method which allows me to fix this error and connect to the remote servers again.
instead of check whether that server system is working or not, because sometimes if the server system is not working means we are unable to connect to that system
Hi All We have a server where we have sql server 2008 as well as SQL server 2005 hosted on port 1444. Using SSMS, I am able to connect to 2008 instance without any problem. But when I try to connect to 2005 instance using following connection settings.
DEVDB1\SQL_2005,1444
SQL server authentication user name and password.
I get following error
"A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while
establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or
was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that
SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: TCP
Provider, error: 0 - A Connection attempt failed because the connected
party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established
connection failed because connection host has failed to
respond)(Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 10060)"
I am able to connect to another instance on the same server. but not this.
NOTE: My colleagues are able to connect to this sql server with the same settings. It just does not work from my machine. Me and all my colleagues are working on VPN and have same machine configuration.
Is there any setting that I need to do/check to get successfully connected?
My VPN user profile was restricting access to this perticular port. Once my VPN user profile is matched with those who were able to access, the problem resolved.
I just installed of SQL Server Management Studio Express 2012, and then I try to connect database engine with servername : ./sqlexpress, but it failed.
Its raised message like below :
TITLE: Connect to Database Engine
Cannot connect to ./sqlexpress.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 - Could not open a connection to SQL Server) (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 3)
For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?ProdName=Microsoft%20SQL%20Server&EvtSrc=MSSQLServer&EvtID=3&LinkId=20476
The system cannot find the path specified.
Whats going wrong?
I've seen this in the past, most likely the wrong instance name or address. Since it is a local DB instance on your machine you will want to try connecting to (local)\SQLEXPRESS [This is the default SQL Express Instance]
If you are running a local instance of SQL Server you can just use localhost as the server name. Also you can try to remove the ./ before the server name.
If anyone else gets a failed to connect to server instance while trying to connect to a DB in C#, make sure you add localhost to the front of your database server address if you're on the same machine.
ie: myDatabase2012
should be put in as localhost\\myDatabase2012 (the second \ is needed to escape the first)
I am new to managing servers but I have just been given full access to set up an MS SQL Database on win server 2003. I have created a Database successfully and can connect locally (via remote desktop server)
Problem is I can't connect to the database from my personal computer (remotely, via ms sql server management studio). I have followed several tutorials such as: http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/05/21/sql-server-fix-error-provider-named-pipes-provider-error-40-could-not-open-a-connection-to-sql-server-microsoft-sql-server-error/
The error I am receiving is:
Cannot connect to 'servername'
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
A network-related or instance-specific
error occurred while establishing a
connection to SQL Server. The server
was not found or was not accessible.
Verify that the instance name is
correct and that SQL Server is
configured to allow remote
connections. (provider: Named Pipes
Provider, error: 40 - Could not open a
connection to SQL Server) (Microsoft
SQL Server, Error: 53)
Any help will be great, thanks!
"SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections"
You need to enable remote tcp/ip connections in sql surface area configuration. It's new in 2005 and then dropped in 2008.
If that doesn't work, you either have a network issue are are perhaps giving the wrong name - maybe you installed a named instance?
I've installed an instance of SQL 2005 Express on <computername>/SQLEXPRESS. There is only once instance installed. I've allowed remote connections, turned on SQL authentication, enabled TCP/IP, Named Pipes and VIA but I still can't access the database from another computer. I keep getting:
A network-related or instance-specific
error occurred while establishing a
connection to SQL Server. The server
was not found or was not accessible.
Verify that the instance name is
correct and that SQL Server is
configured to allow remote
connections. (provider: SQL Network
Interfaces, error: 26 - Error Locating
Server/Instance Specified)
What else can I look for? I'm sure my code is correct as it was used to connect to this same system prior to it being wiped. I'm pretty confident the connection string is correct as well:
Server=<computername>\SQLEXPRESS;User Id=<username>;Password=<password>;
There's also no firewalls standing between the two systems. They're on the same network segment and Windows Firewall has been shut off completely.
Is the SQL Server Browser running on the machine? For named instances, like \SQLExpress, the SQL Browser allows client machines to identify which port to connect to.
By default, only the default instance runs on TCP 1433. If the client can't connect on the default port, it queries the SQL Browser at UDP 1434 to locate the correct port to use for a given named instance.