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I am not associated with database maintenance task. I am application developer. I installed SQL Server 2008 Express edition on my computer as an instance localhost\sqlexpress .
How do I use only the IP address to connect to this server rather than ip\sqlexpress ?
If multiple instances are possible and I am connecting with IP then how can I choose any instance of server?
You can use an IP address to reference the instance. It would be something like
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx\sqlexpress.If you were to just use the IP addess (or host name) you would have to have a default instance installed on the machine. If you have no default instance installed then you will not connect, and you’ll return an error.
SQL Server Express is a named instance by default and will require the named instance datasource reference (ip/hostname followed by instance name). You will need to install Express as a default instance to reference by ip only.
In other words, no you cannot connect to a SQL Server Express instance with IP only unless you have installed Express as the default instance.