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Is it possible to include port numbers in hosts file? Reason that I’m asking is because I have sites that I’m trying to migrate from one hosting server to another, and the sites are pointing to an old SQL server that uses the standard TCP/IP port (1433). On the new server, the SQL Server port is different, and I don’t want to change the connection strings for these sites.
Thank you!
You can configure an alias in the SQL Configuration Management tool. Is designed to cover exactly this scenario.