Purpose

Specifies either the IP address in IPv4 or IPv6 format, or the server name (if your network supports named servers) of the primary database server. See Using IP Addresses for more information about using IP addresses.

This property is supported only for data source connections.

Valid Values

string

where:

string
is a valid IP address or server name.

Notes

  • To connect to a named instance, specify server_name\\instance_name for this property, where server_name is the IP address and instance_name is the name of the instance to which you want to connect on the specified server.

Example

122.23.15.12 or SQLServerServer

Default

None

Data Type

String

See also

Connecting to Named Instances