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Asked: 2026-05-15T02:21:32+00:00

Check out this pic of my SQL 2008 Management Configuration screen for TCP: I

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Check out this pic of my SQL 2008 Management Configuration screen for TCP: alt text

I need to know what port I am running on. Based on this previous post, I don’t believe that it is 1433, which I guess is the default.

When I check my port number in SQL Config Mgr., it is blank. Does this suggest a default port? Note that I have multiple SQL Server instances on the db server. One 2000 instance and two 2008 instances. I want to know the port of the 2008b instance.

The first display is for TCP. I’m not sure what VIA is, but check it out:

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Can you help?

Update

I restarted my sql2008b instance and checked the log to look for a msg that indicated the port that it was using. It showed this:

2010-05-22 20:06:29.27 Server      A self-generated certificate was successfully loaded for encryption.
2010-05-22 20:06:29.27 Server      Server local connection provider is ready to accept connection on [ \\.\pipe\SQLLocal\SQL2008B ].
2010-05-22 20:06:29.27 Server      Server local connection provider is ready to accept connection on [ \\.\pipe\MSSQL$SQL2008B\sql\query ].
2010-05-22 20:06:29.32 Server      Server is listening on [ 127.0.0.1 <ipv4> 5786].
2010-05-22 20:06:29.32 Server      Dedicated admin connection support was established for listening locally on port 5786.

Yet, when I tried to log on using the following as the server name:

(local)\sql2008b,5786

I still was unable to connect, while logged onto the remote box (hence using “local”.)

A suggstion was made below to set the port myself. This occurred to me to try but there are a couple of things that are botehring me:
1) Why can I connect to my SQL 2000 instance without monkeying with anything to get it to work (but not my 2008 instance)?
2) The IP addresses shown in TCP1 and 2 don’t appear correct. The one I blacnked out, presumably theIP address of my router and the one needed to make my server visible on the Internet, was not correct. Also , the local 192.168.1.100 was not correct. The db server server’s IP adress end in a different number. perhaps I sh

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  1. Editorial Team

    TCP/IP is disabled in your screenshot so it isn’t listening on any port. On start up when enabled it will write an entry to the SQL Server logs telling you what port it is listening to. (Accessible through Management Studio tree view Management -> Sql Server Logs nodes)

    You might find this link useful How to configure an instance of SQL Server to listen on a specific TCP port or dynamic port

    Also do you have the SQL Server Browser service running on that machine (it might help you connecting to the right instance)?

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