I'm trying to connect SSMS 18.5 to a localhost connection so I can play around with toy data to learn some things. I regularly use it to connect to external databases, but I am having a hard time getting it to work locally.
Here's what I've tried so far:
ATTEMPT 1:
I started by looking at the official documentation from Microsoft on getting this setup from this page.
My problem with this is that when I went to Database Engine --> Local Server Groups --> Tasks --> Register Local Servers I was always greeted with this error message:
I tried reinstalling my program to see if there was a problem with my configuration but that didn't work either.
Then I tried using the Connect Object Explorer and signing on using Windows authentication like so:
But that returned this message:
If I want to get a local connection, what do I do?
For the past month I have been using Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio tool to connect to my database which created on the Azure portal. Recently I received updates from Microsoft related to Microsoft Visual Studio. After I installed these, I can't connect to my SQL database (previously it was working fine). Update History Screenshot I attached the screenshot of recent updates (which I installed) and the error message for your view.Error Message
Please help to solve this issue.
note: I am an SQL beginner, so I don't know many technical things related to tools, so please keep your answers to my level, Thanks!
Update: Error Message
TITLE: Connect to Server
Cannot connect to abcxyz.database.windows.net.
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)
The network path was not found
This error means that you tried to create a connection to an endpoint and you were expecting a acknowledgment from sql server, however, that acknowledgement did not occur. This means that you are either blocked by your own network, a network in route, or the endpoint network (which all three could be your own if, running locally). I would start by pinging that server ip address and seeing what you come up with.
that problem solved automatically, when I tried to keep connecting. really I don't know what was the problem..thanks for ur reply guys.
I'm trying to connect to Analysis service by Clicking on DATA > From Other Sources > From Analysis Service but then error shows up. It's telling me that I have typed wrong server name. But connect to Database engine is fine, how do I do it ? Please help, this will be very helpful.
PS. I'm using SQL Server 2012 with tools. I use the same server name with database engine.
If the server is installed locally you can try using "localhost" or just a simple dot ".". Make sure to connect to SSAS using SSMS and check in Properties > Security what are the users allowed to connect.
If you have multiple instances installed on the same machine then make sure you use the correct name with domain included: Domain\InstanceName
Another option is to check using the SQL Server Configuration Manager what are the network protocols activated.
I just built a new machine after my old one crashed a few days ago. I'm running Windows 7. I installed SQL Server 2012 Express as well as SQL Server Development Edition with Tools.
After installing, I made sure I could connect to both the Express version, local Dev server as well as multiple remote servers. Everything was great.
This morning, I installed Visual Studio 2012. Since doing this, I can still connect to my Local servers (Express and Dev), but I can't connect to the remote servers. The error I get is this:
A connection was successfully established with the server, but then an error occurred during the pre-login handshake. (provider: SSL Provider, error: 0 - The wait operation timed out.) (.Net SqlClient Data Provider)
I've searched for issues, and while I've found some similar to this, not many mention Visual Studio, and none offer a solution.
UPDATE
I found I can connect using Named Pipes. The problem then is that not all my servers are configured to allow Named Pipes.
Visual Studion Connection Related Error:
netsh winsock reset
Run this command in command prompt. That will Fix Connection Related Error in Visual studio 2012
I think you'll need to look in your SQL server configuration manager and make sure TCP/IP is enabled for the database instances your interested in.
It isn't by default if I remember rightly.
If you're ok locally, have you read this post?
An error occured during the pre-login handshake
As other users are experiencing this problem, I thought I would add the solution I found.
The utility lspfix.exe found a break in the Layered Service Provider (LSP) chain. I applied the recommended fix and I was up and running again.
The fix was recommended by the lspfix.exe application. It's a very simple tool to use and it found the problem quickly. Here is the url to the tool.
http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm
Yes folks, it's this one again.
"A connection was successfully established with the server, but then
an error occurred during the login process (provider: TCP Provider,
error: 0 - An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote
host.)"
I'm sorry... I have Google'd this, I have read the other StackOverflow articles on this problem, and I have tried all kinds of suggestions, but nothing works.
Here's a few notes about what we're seeing.
This issue occurs occassionally in SQL Server Management Studio itself (doing any kind of database activity... getting a list of tables in a database, having a look at a Stored Procedure, etc)
It also happens in Visual Studio 2010 itself, when it is trying to get data from the servers (e.g. when creating a .dbml file, etc)
It also sometimes happens in our .Net (ASP, WPF, Silverlight) applications.
Our SQL Server 2005 & 2008 servers are all based on virtual machines in data centres around the world, and we see sometimes this error on each of them. But most of the time, they all work absolutely fine.
When the error does occur, we can just "retry" what caused the error, and then it'll work fine.
We think.. if we have an IIS Web Server in a data centre in a particular city, and it accesses a SQL Server in the same data centre, then we don't see the issue.
We think.. if we connect to the servers, and specify the UserID and Password to use, it causes this error much more frequently than if we just use Active Directory authentication.
Put all that together, and it sounds to me like some kind of network issue.
But can anyone suggest what to look for ?
This isn't a bug in our .Net applications, as even SQL Server Management Studio "trips up" with this error.
It's baffling us.
Just in case anyone else hits this issue, we finally found the solution.
Our company uses Riverbed software to compress data, when it's being passed between locations, and this was somehow causing some connections to get dropped.
Our IT gurus found a configuration setting which finally fixed this issue.
I believe there's a setting in there to turn off compressing results from SQL Server (or something like that). That fixed it for us.
It could be any number of network issues. ANYTHING that prevents the code from reaching the server even for the few miliseconds it takes to make one query.
it could also be the result of a failover. When we went from a single SQL Server to a clustered environment, we'd see this happen during a failover. In this case, it turned out to be our Connection Pooling. In essence, the SQL cluster has a controller and two servers behind it. A and B.
Say our web app is using server A just fine, Connection pooling creates a connection on both sides. The server is aware of it, and the web app is aware of it. Once the cluster fails over to the second server, the web app is aware of the connection but server B is not, so we get an error.
The point is, any possible cause of network issues imaginable may be the cause. DOS attacks on the server, man-in-the middle attacks intercepting and changing traffic. Someone trips on an ethernet cable and it's loose in the jack. You name it, if it can cause a connection issue, it could be the cause.
Your issue also sounds like one we had recently - we also have a virtual environment, wih software that moves VMs from one host to another as needed for load balancing. Every so often, we'd get bombarded with the same error. It turned out to be an issue with the NIC drivers on one of the hosts, so whenever a VM moved to that particular host, errors would occur.
It's really not a programming issue. It's an environment issue, and you need trained professionals with direct access to your environment to research and resolve this.
My problem was that I was inadvertently using a wireless network to connect to our network because the Ethernet cable was faulty. This after repairing SQL Server, running a Winsock reset as recommended elsewhere ...
I am experiencing the same issue and our app interfaces with a several Azure SQL DBs. I believe (same as you) I do not have a bug in the C# code to cause this issue. We've solved it by a simple for loop containing an extra attempts to try to connect to the Azure SQL again if the previous attempt fails and then run the query.
Most of the time everything runs fine but sometimes we can see the loop kicked-in and on the 2nd or 3rd time it executed properly without the below mentioned error. After that we see in the log file the error below for all the unsuccessful attempts:
A connection was successfully established with the server,
but then an error occurred during the login process. (provider: TCP
Provider, error: 0 - An existing connection was forcibly closed by the
remote host.)
Even though this is a less-then-pretty solution, it allowed us to run our app without interruptions. I know you've mentioned that trying to connect again (to introduce some connection-failure tolerance) solves the problem and unfortunately this is the only correct solution I found so far as well.
I should mention that we have tried many debugging strategies to figure this out. Right now it all points to the availability of the database we are trying to connect to i.e.: It happens if the number of allowed DB connections is exceeded. (or so it seems at this time)
Turn off your VPN
My Problem fixed by turn off VPN
It was happening in our code when we were opening the dbconnection for oracle and were passing DBtype as SQL in our database object.
in my case - the error was Microsoft first suggestion:
Client is connecting with an unsupported version of the SQL Server Native Client.
In our case, We got this error when we updated sql server to sp3. We were not able to connect to the database from SSIS package.
We updated the native client and configurations. We were able to connect.
link to download the native client - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=50402
Link for configurations settings and further troubleshooting - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/sql/sql-server-2008-r2/ms187005(v=sql.105)
Hope it helps.
Cheers!
Had the same type of issue. In my case it was a bit more complicated... I could connect to “ServerA” from “ServerB” via SSMS, but it would fail with sqlcmd. The error was the same:
Sqlcmd: Error: Microsoft SQL Server Native Client 11.0 : TCP Provider: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.
I could also connect from “ServerC” with both SSMS and sqlcmd. The following are the versions on the VMs:
ServerA: Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter / Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (SP3-CU10) (KB4025925) - 11.0.6607.3 (X64)
ServerB: Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter / Microsoft SQL Server 2012 - 11.0.5058.0 (X64)
ServerC: Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter / Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (SP3-CU10) (KB4025925) - 11.0.6607.3 (X64)
Bottom line was the “unsupported version”. I noticed a mismatch of “sqlncli11.dll” between ServerC and ServerB, so I copied it to the System32 folder. After this, sqlcmd worked like a charm. Below were the versions in my case:
Failed:
FileVersion: 2011.0110.5058.00
ProductVersion: 11.0.5058.0
Worked:
FileVersion: 2011.0110.6607.03
ProductVersion: 11.0.6607.3
I was working on 2 projects at the same time (on 2 different machines) and both used SQL Server.
When i disconnected SQL with 1 machine the errorMessage went away. Probably you can mess around with IP-adresses too to fix the problem.
In my case I was seeing this error intermittently from a .Net application connecting to a SQL server located in the same server room. It turned out that some of the databases had auto close turned on which caused the server to close the connections in the pool. When the application tried to use one of the pool connections that had been closed, it would throw this error and I saw a log message on the SQL server that the database it was trying to connect to was being started. Auto-close has now been turned off on those databases and the error hasn't been seen since.
Also, having auto-close on is the default behavior for SQL Express databases and these were originally created on an Express instance during testing before being migrated to the production server where we were seeing the errors.
this answer is for those how have this problem with Azure Sql server database.
It happens when you reach mat pool
first remove Persist Security Info=False from connection string
second check your database plan in azure portal and increase the PTUs of your database plan.
In SSMS "Connect to Server" screen click Options, then on "Connection Properties" TAB change "Network protocol" to "Named Pipes"
Try this -
Click Start, point to All Programs, and click SQL Server Configuration Manager.
Click to expand SQL Server Network Configuration and then click Client Protocols.
Right-click the TCP/IP protocol and then click Enable.
Right-click the Named Pipes protocol and then click Enable.
Restart the SQL server service if prompted to do so.
I have had this issue a couple of time already, and I've fixed by reducing the MTU size. Often 1350, 1250, etc on my network interface.