Tarek Ghazali
Hi Ziad,
Can you explain what you did exactly did you create the following:
1-create alisan name : mysecondserver
2-port: by default empty , you need to specify the port in case you have firewall issue.
3-protocol: TCP/IP or other..
4-server: IP\instance_name
NB: to be sure about server name on the second server select @@servername in query window on the second server.
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Tarek Ghazali
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