There are plenty of tutorials out there that explain how to configure an MS SQL Server alias. However, since none of them worked for me, I wrote this post so I ll be able to look it up in the future. Here s what finally got it working for me. My Use Case In my development team at work, some of our local database instances have different names. Manually adapting…
Configuration of SQL Server on Linux with mssql-conf As per Microsoft documentation, mssql-conf is a configuration script that installs with SQL Server vNext CTP 1.2 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, and Ubuntu. We can use this utility to set the following parameters: TCP port: Change the port where SQL Server will listen for connections…
In this very short video, I walk you through the step by step process of opening the 1433 firewall port for SQL Server. I am doing it because I am setting up a new System Center Operations manager server but the procedures would be the same for any other application that uses SQL Server for the database backend. Full Details on opening ports for SCOM can be found…
