Learn how to create an alias in SQL Server Configuration Manager so that you can use an alternate name when connecting to an instance of SQL Server. Aliases for SQL Server are a client side ...

On my local development machine, I prefer running 'SQL Server Developer Edition' vs 'SQL Express'. But I have worked on projects where the team is using SQL Express, and the connection string that is ...

We've got a DNS alias in our DNS server so that we can reference the SQL Server via a generic easy to remember name. It's used in our client app's ODBC connection. The thought process being, if we ...

Is it possible to have a SQL Server 2005/2008 instance respond under multiple "aliases" for the same server.Eg.