connectivity

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How It Works: SQL Server 2005 Connection and Task Assignments
First published on MSDN on Feb 12, 2008 I have talked about how connections and tasks get assigned as PASS and during many other mentoring opportunities.
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Sep 09, 2025 Place SQL Server Support Blog
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Run SQL Server default instance on a non-standard TCP port. Tips for making app connectivity work
First published on MSDN on Mar 03, 2010 We know that with the default setup of SQL Server (SQL Server 2000/2005/2008), the ‘Default’ instance listens on TCP port 1433.
Krishnakumar_Rukmangathan
Feb 27, 2025 Place SQL Server Support Blog
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Connection Timeouts in Multi-subnet Availability Group
First published on MSDN on Jun 03, 2014 THE DEFINITION One of the issues that generates a lot of call volume we see on the AlwaysOn team is dealing with connectivity issues to the availability group listener in multi-subnet environments.
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Feb 18, 2025 Place SQL Server Support Blog
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How to grant ReadServicePrincipalName and WriteServicePrincipalName rights to SQL Server service start-up account without using ADSDIEDIT tool.
First published on MSDN on Jan 06, 2010 I hope you probably know how to fix below different authentication related errors that can occur while connecting to SQL Server with Windows Integrated Authentication.
Krishnakumar_Rukmangathan
Jun 05, 2024 Place SQL Server Support Blog
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The OLE DB provider "MSDASQL" for linked server " " supplied inconsistent metadata for a column.The column " " (compile-time ordinal 2) of object " " was reported to have a "DBCOLUMNFLAGS_ISLONG" of 0...
First published on MSDN on Jul 23, 2015 Applies To: SQL 2012 and above.
Krishnakumar_Rukmangathan
Feb 15, 2024 Place SQL Server Support Blog
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Error 18056 can be unwanted noise in certain scenarios
First published on MSDN on May 05, 2010 I saw a lot of hits on the web when I searched for the Error message 18056 with State 29.
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Jan 17, 2024 Place SQL Server Support Blog
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Connecting to MySQL from SSIS
First published on MSDN on Mar 04, 2008 Update: See this follow-up post on writing data to MySQL.
SSIS-Team
Oct 18, 2023 Place SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) Blog
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How to get unstuck when using SQL Aliases
First published on MSDN on Jun 05, 2015 I got a case recently where the customer had a SQL Alias setup but was having issues connecting to their application.
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Sep 01, 2023 Place SQL Server Support Blog
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Repeated login failures on an Azure SQL Virtual Machine
First published on MSDN on Mar 23, 2016 Lately, a user called in for support because he saw repeated failures like below, flooding the Windows event logs and errorlogs on Azure Virtual machines they have in their environment.
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Jun 06, 2023 Place SQL Server Support Blog
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How to get up and running with Oracle and Linked Servers
First published on MSDN on Jul 31, 2015 I have had more Linked Server cases that are setup for an Oracle database than any other non-SQL Server database in SQL.
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May 25, 2023 Place SQL Server Support Blog
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