Connecting to a local SQL server .mdf file
650612Jul 17 2008 — edited Jul 18 2008Hi all,
In doing some prototyping of my database I started working with a local copy of an SQL Server database since it so conveniently integrated with the Visual Studio .NET tools I use. Now that I have spent far too much time working on a local prototype, I would very much like to migrate it to our in-house database rather than rewrite the whole thing (it is quite large in terms of tables and constraints and none of our in-house tools generate code from ER diagrams).
Seeing that SQL Developer had a migration utility I pounced at a chance to use it. I installed it as well as the recommended JDBC driver; however, it occurs to me that I have no idea how to connect to a local database file using the host name and port fields given to me. Is there some convenient way to configure SQL Server 2005 to forward this file to some kind of local host? Or is there any other driver for use with a local .mdf file? Help would be greatly appreciated.