connecting to ms sql link database

  • Pam Balendra

    (@pam-balendra)


    11 years, 8 months ago

    I am getting the following errors when i use sqlsrv_connect command to connect to a linked ms sql databsse , please help. Thank you

    Username: admin Connection could not be established.
    SQLSTATE: 08001
    code: 53
    message: [Microsoft][SQL Server Native Client 11.0]Named Pipes Provider: Could not open a connection to SQL Server [53].
    SQLSTATE: HYT00
    code: 0
    message: [Microsoft][SQL Server Native Client 11.0]Login timeout expired
    SQLSTATE: 08001
    code: 53
    message: [Microsoft][SQL Server Native Client 11.0]A network-related or instance-specific error has occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. Server is not found or not accessible. Check if instance name is correct and if SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. For more information see SQL Server Books Online

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  • Chris Barrett

    (@cbarrett123)

    11 years, 8 months ago

    WordPress is not designed to work with SQL Server. It’s designed to work with MySQL. You would be better off looking at installing MySQL on the same server and using that for your WordPress setup (if you need to run SQL Server). For more information, please review esmi’s response from a few years back: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-and-sql-server

    (There is a link in that thread about a site reported to have been built by Microsoft engineers discussing setting up SQL Server to use WordPress, but as they haven’t posted anything in years I don’t know if anything there would still work. Caveat emptor on that link).

    Thread Starter Pam Balendra

    (@pam-balendra)

    11 years, 8 months ago

    Thank you Chris,

    may be i did not make this clear, our WordPress application is running on MySQL , I need to connect to an external MS SQL database on another server to extract some data to be displayed on the WP application we are developing.

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