I have seen in some cases that a dot character (.) can be used when connecting into a local sql server instance. What is definition of . in this case? Is this documented in BOL?
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I have seen in some cases that a dot character (.) can be used when connecting into a local sql server instance. What is definition of . in this case? Is this documented in BOL?
in section “Connecting to the Local Server” of [ 1 ]
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Creating a Valid Connection String Using TCP/IP
SQL Server 2008 R2
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms191260.aspx