Comments on: Connecting ColdFusion to SQL Server Express

By: sam

sam — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:24:03 +0000

thank you for this write up it helped me save hours trying to figure out the options.

i skipped the sql driver installation step, also setting Enabled=YES for every IP type (i only set enabled=yes on ip4 and ip6 which already had IPs assigned and the port was set 1433). i’m using cf9. just went in and enabled login for sa account, which is disabled by default in sqlexpress and used that to register the datasource. I did not have to put the connection string in either.

thanks again!

By: Sarvesh Agarwal

Sarvesh Agarwal — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 06:44:34 +0000

Hi every one,

i have successfully done the above mentioned steps but i am facing problem while enabling the tcp/ip protocol…the error which i am facing is….(Access denied[0x80041003])

so kindly give a solution for the same….

By: javimon

javimon — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 05:59:26 +0000

Hi Am Jav.. An erro occured while connecting coldfusion 9 and sql sever 2008. if any one have solutions kindly request to solve this problem. Error is following

Connection verification failed for data source: dsn_jas
java.sql.SQLNonTransientConnectionException: [Macromedia][SQLServer JDBC Driver]Error establishing socket to host and port: 192.168.0.112:1433. Reason: Connection refused: connect
The root cause was that: java.sql.SQLNonTransientConnectionException: [Macromedia][SQLServer JDBC Driver]Error establishing socket to host and port: 192.168.0.112:1433. Reason: Connection refused: connect

By: David Swain

David Swain — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:30:00 +0000

I followed this for windows 7, sql 2008 express, and coldfusion server 9, developer edition.

cf datasource name:
Database: the name of the database in your sql server 2008 express
Server:
port: 1433
username:
password:

The screens for the setup look a little different so here is what I did for 2008, and cf 9.

1. Open the SQL Server Studio (Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio)

2. Click on the Registered Servers button in the toolbar (Menu bar – View — Resistered Servers)

3. Open the Configuration Manager
…I couldn’t find it this way so I did the following:

Start Button – All Programs – Microsoft SQL Server 2008/Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 – Configurations Tools – Sql Server Configuration Manager

4. If needed, enable the TCP/IP protocol under SQL Server Configuration Manager > SQL Server 2005 Network Configurations > Protocols for SQLEXPRESS
(Mine was turned off in default install so you will need to enable TCP/IP)

5. Now double-click the TCP/IP protocol to view the properties. Click on the IP Addresses tab and make sure that the TCP Port is set to 1433 for every IP type.
(put the 1433 in All the TCP Port boxes all the way down the list (10 places) and apply.

6. Open the Properties page for your server instance
(Now go back to the other window-Microsoft SQl Server Management Studio, or reopen it whatever.)
..right click on the running server and select properties

7. Go to the Security item and make sure that you have Mixed Mode enabled. After making sure all of the these settings are in place, you should now restart your server.
..Click OK. YOu can restart from here by right clicking on server, stop (wait a minuted), then right click on server and start.

8. Once the server restarts, create a new login to be used by Cold
Fusion, give it a SQL Server Authentication password, and set the default database to the one you’re setting up.
Right click on:
(Server Name, Security folder – Logins folder)
pick new login, follow directions from there.

Ok here is where my path differed (did not need to download anything or use jdbc).

Open cf administrator:
Data Sources
Put in a name you want to call the connection (I used the same name as my database, but whatever you want)
Driver: Microsoft SQL server
Add button

Ok now I put this:

cf datasource name:
Database: the name of the database in your sql server 2008 express
Server:
port: 1433
username:
password:

then submit, and done!

-Good Luck

By: sl

sl — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 02:06:44 +0000

Excellent post!
Thank you so much

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By: Jen Larkin

Jen Larkin — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:48:56 +0000

Thanks for this article! The steps listed almost got me working with SQL Server Express and CF 9 (although I skipped the driver install step). The result was a permissions error that the new user that I had created did not have permissions to the database to which I was trying to connect. The fix for that was to go to:
Security> Logins> [new user account name]> properties> User Mapping
Select the database and the role membership area will become active. The only role that had been assigned was “public” so I added everything other than the deny roles.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:59:16 +0000

OK, sorry about the almost immediate second post… I hope I can save someone else the hair-pulling I went through.

The problem was Outlook’s Business Contact Manager, which uses Microsoft SQL Server Compact Edition (not Express). I downloaded and installed Microsoft SQL Server *Express* and it finally worked, and with the Microsoft SQL Server datasource type, too, so no JDBC connection strings outlined above were needed.

I suppose I’d like to know why I had the problems with the original installation (yes, I used the right server name: mssmlbiz instead of sqlexpress), but just having it working now is a big relief.

-Bruce

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 00:26:57 +0000

Hello,
I have spent at least two days trying everything explained here and then some. No problem on two home computers (Win7) (many, many thanks!!!) but my work computer (Vista) refuses. Two things worth noting:
1) I am behind a hardware firewall, Windows firewall is not running;
2) MS Office 2007 came pre-installed, with Outlook running Business Contact Manage, so sqlserver 2005 is already installed. The server name is mssmlbiz, so I exchanged that in the connection string appropriately.

Here’s the error I get:

Connection verification failed for data source: Phoenix_PhoenixLoc
java.sql.SQLException: Timed out trying to establish connection
The root cause was that: java.sql.SQLException: Timed out trying to establish connection

Any help or clarification would be most appreciated.

-Bruce