How to easily test your remote SQL connectivity

Microsoft's own Steve Rachui explains how to quickly and easily test remote SQL connectivity using any account you like.  This is a neat trick that will surely prove useful when working with a wide variety of products.

J.C. Hornbeck | System Center Knowledge Engineer

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Comments

• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
  Simple, but very useful, I think this is easiest way to do this, good tip, thank you for share.

• Anonymous
  December 14, 2010
  App-V provides a filled out udl file on the Program Files Management Server.  You can double click on it and then just hit the test button.