Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Erland Sommarskog Newsgroups: comp.databases.ms-sqlserver Subject: Re: test connection to a database without specifying a database Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:12:30 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Erland Sommarskog Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <4ec26862$0$294$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:12:30 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="G7+Jz22XqYCG8C6rb1H3YA"; logging-data="27309"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18yn30zADC7WrVZtcVRtnL9" User-Agent: Xnews/2005.10.03 Mime-proxy/1.4.c.4 (Win32) Cancel-Lock: sha1:reqP0FCQQHSWiqyLMcirsJDf/Pk= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.databases.ms-sqlserver:803 Tony (johansson.andersson@telia.com) writes: > I do the following. > 1.Right click on Data Connection in Server Explorer and choose Add > connection > 2. In the Data Source I select Microsoft SQL Server (SqlClient) > 3.In server name I enter localhost > 4. I select Use Window Authentication > 5. I click on Test Connection and the result is Test connection succeeded > > Now to my question I really don't understand how this is possible to test a > connection > without specifying any database ? > Can somebody explain that. This is because that SQL Server stores a default database for you, which you will be connected to if you do not specify a database. By default this default database is the master database. -- Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se Books Online for SQL Server 2005 at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/downloads/books.mspx Books Online for SQL Server 2000 at http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/previousversions/books.mspx