2008-11-05

How to setup and use a SQL Server alias

By using an alias, we can keep the application configuration the same, but tell the operating system to look somewhere else for the database. One proviso is that once an alias is created, it is set at the operating system level. That means if we have two applications which connect to MySQLServer on that computer, once the alias is created, both will be re-pointed based on the alias. You can create an alias using one of two utilities:

1. SQL Server Configuration Manager
2. SQL Server Client Network Utility

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