Using Friendly Names for SQL Servers via DNS

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Published on Wed, 04 Apr 2012 06:00:00 UT Indexed on 2012/04/05 23:38 UTC
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Wouldn't it be great if your HR folks only had to put in HR-SQL.mydomain.com for the database connection in their reports? They wouldn't have to remember it was on server Nile and they certainly wouldn't have to change their reports if you migrated their database from the Nile server to the server named Danube. In DNS there are two easy ways to do this.

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