Before you can use SQL Studio to access the data in a database instance, you must establish a connection with the database server and log on to the database.
When you do so, you can suppress the timeout behavior of the database if you want to. Over a longer period of time, inactive database connections are therefore no longer automatically terminated.
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1. If you want to suppress the timeout behavior of the database, first activate the No Timeout checkbox in the toolbar.
2. Choose Session ® Connect.
3. Enter the name of the database server and the database instance.
4. Enter your user name and password, and choose OK.
When you enter the user name and password, the system automatically uses upper case. If you want the system to differentiate between upper and lower case, you must put quotation marks around your user name and password. The quotation marks are also necessary if the user name or password includes special characters. Quotation marks must not be used as part of the user name or password itself.
The system establishes a connection with the database. The current session is entered in the recent sessions list.
You can also open a new database session directly in the same window by using the recent sessions list. The current session is then closed.
If you want to open an additional database session in a new window, choose Session ® New SQL Studio.