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Asked: 2026-06-11T15:44:35+00:00

I’m trying to add a Data Connection in Visual Studio 2010 to a SQL

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I’m trying to add a Data Connection in Visual Studio 2010 to a SQL Server 2008 database at a given IP (thru internet). What ports do I need to open up and forward to make the magic happen?

Any settings in the SQL Server I need to set to allow external connections?

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    Port 1433 is the default one used.

    See TCP/IP port numbers required to communicate to SQL over a firewall for more details.

    The default SQL Server port is 1433, and client ports are assigned a random value between 1024 and 5000.

    And:

    The port doesn’t need to be 1433, but 1433 is the official Internet Assigned Number Authority (IANA) socket number for SQL Server.

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