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CHAPTER 6 ■ DEPLOYING YOUR WEB SITE
Configuring Your Data Connections
Remember, your web service is connected to your database, so the first step is to change
the web service connection from pointing to your local database to pointing to the
server-based one. You do this by changing the connection string.
Earlier, you had a connection string that looked like this:
Data Source=localhost\SQLExpress;Initial Catalog=AdventureWorks;
Integrated Security=True
You should change it to look like this:
Data Source=servername\SQLExpress;Initial Catalog=AdventureWorks;
Integrated Security=True
You may face some issues when trying to connect to this remote database. The most
common ones will be that SQL Server isn’t configured for remote access and that the
server firewall isn’t permitting the SQL Server traffic to pass.
You’ll see how to resolve these issues in the next sections.
Configuring SQL Server for Remote TCP/IP Access
SQL Server is configured using SQL Server Configuration Manager. From here, you can
control the services, the native client, and the network configuration.
On the network configuration screen (see Figure 6-12), you should make sure that
the TCP service is enabled and running.
Figure 6-12. SQL Server Configuration Manager