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Asked: 2026-05-15T12:52:13+00:00

I have two development teams, that come from different groups. Group A develops against

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I have two development teams, that come from different groups.

  • Group A develops against a local default instance of Sql Server 2008 R2;
  • Group B develops against a local named instance of Sql Server 2008 R2.

Is there a way to setup an alias such that both groups are coding against the same name? As it stands right now we have a war of Connection Strings as group B changes (local) to ./DEV and group A changes it back again?

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  1. Editorial Team

    In SQL Server Configuration Manager, under the SQL server native client configuration section there is a subsection called “aliases” you can add an alias into here that points to your named instance. You just use the alias as if it is the default instance on a server with the name of the alias. We use this exact model and have only one connection string that points to a standard alias. Each developer has the same alias name pointing to their own instance.

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