Laravel connect to a SQL Server 2008 named instance

Question

I am trying to connect an SQL server from an Ubuntu machine, everythings works great except for named instances:

this works

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Answer 1

I finally found a solution, there were two problems :

• The SQL server wasn't listening on the good default port (my bad)
• Laravel (PDO ?) doesn't know how to handle (or at least I haven't found how) named instances, I have tried any possible combination (see Question)

So I finally used a combination of FreeTDS DSN with laravel in order to connect the SQL named instance server.

The /etc/freetds.conf DSN configuration:

[NAMED_INSTANCE]
   host = 127.0.0.1
   port = 55021

And in the laravel database adapter:

'webcmd' => array(
    'driver'   => 'sqlsrv',
    'host'     => 'NAMED_INSTANCE',
    'database' => 'db',
    'username' => 'usr',
    'password' => 'pwd',
    'prefix'   => '',
),

And that solved my problem, hope it'll help someone too

Answer 2

Thanks for the participation to solve this connection problem. I also encountered this problem, here is how I solved it.

For info in my case the connection with tsql works but not since Laravel (5.4)

One trick I took to understand is that it is not the default port (1433) that is used.

To find the port you must start a shell connection:

tsql -D DB -S "IP\INSTANCE" -U login -P pass

And check in the logs the good port here is 1168

Net.c: 1059: instance port is 1168

Contents of the file freetds.conf

[global]
    text size = 64512
    dump file = /var/log/freetds.log
    dump file append = yes

[mssql]
    host = MSSQLSRV
    port = 1168
    tds version = auto
    instance = IP\INSTANCE
    dump file = /var/log/freetds.log
    dump file append = yes

Contents of the file : config/database.php

 'sqlsrv' => [
            'driver'   => 'sqlsrv',
            'host'     => 'mssql',
            'port'     => '1168',
            'database' => 'DB',
            'username' => 'login',
            'password' => 'pass',
            'prefix'   => '',
        ],

Now everything is working properly.