From: Wesley Chen Date: 2009-04-08T11:50:34+09:00 Subject: Re: How to remote connect to the SQL server 2005 when there is a ‘\’ in the SQL server name, such as 192.168.0.11\active? --0016e645a3d8d33fa90467022ff9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, Sean, Thank you very much for your post. It is not SQL express. I still can't connect it following the comment in the URL you provided. Would you please give me suggestion about how to specify separately from the host? Thanks. Wesley Chen. On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 3:26 AM, Sean O'Halpin wrote: > (Disclaimer: It's a while since I did anything with SQL Server) > > The name after the \ is the instance name which you need to specify > separately from the host. > > You should be able to find what you need in the connection string > here: http://www.connectionstrings.com/sql-server-2005 > > Good luck! > > --0016e645a3d8d33fa90467022ff9--