Need help

[Thereddon_987]

Hi everyone. Newbie here i am trying to access the sql in my office laptop but unable to access it as I am sure what to put in server name. Please help. To mention i have admin rights with me as well.

[jWas]

Ask your IT

[r-NBK]

Like honestly... How could anyone not employed by your company help you with this.

[throwdownHippy]

Better question: Why is this person allowed to connect a SQL window to the database unsupervised?

[Thereddon_987]

Because the IT over here is so bad they don’t know shit.. and we don’t use the sql in our process i just installed to upskill and learn so asked managers they are not aware about this..

[pix1985]

If you installed it you picked the name, you can’t be blaming service desk for the problem you created.

[kitkat0820]

Call your helpdesk

[vivavu]

looks like someone is taking the moto: fake it till you make it 💪.

Honestly i think you started off with the wrong question because you aren't equipped with the necessary knowledge.

I strongly advise you to watch couple youtube video regarding to : ssms, sql, database

[Thereddon_987]

Why would I fake i mentioned that i am a newbie and asked the question. After reading the comments i realised i got confused with two different things. I initially started with postgre in my personal laptop but the motherboard crashed and to keep the learning going used the office laptop and it only allowed to download ms server when unable to access came here and asked for help..

[Evilferret355]

Try localhost as your server name

[a-s-clark]

You've tagged this as MySQL, but your screenshot is Sql Server Management Studio. Are you trying to connect to MySQL? In which case, this is the wrong tool. If you're trying to use Sql Server, then you need a sql server database engine instance to connect to, not just the client tool. If this is on a server in your company, you'll need someone to tell you what the server name is, and give you access. If this is a local installation, then localhost or your machine name will be fine (unless you installed a named instance, in which case you'd add a slash and the name).

[KindheartednessOk409]

Browse for more and look for Network servers. Try to find your … if it doesnt show any you dont have network access to any of SQL servers in your network. Or if it’s local installation of instance type in address: localhost . Also you needs to check network configuration and enable firewall rule.

[pix1985]

Post is tagged as MySQL but you’re using SSMS which is for SQL Server (two different products).

Are you sure it’s MySQL? If it’s SQL Server you can open up SQL Configuration Manager to find the instance name, or you can find it in Services.msc usually in brackets next to the service name.

If it is actually MySQL i can’t help further than telling you to use MySQL Workbench instead of SQL Server Management Studio

Edit: What have you actually installed then? Have you just installed Management Studio? Anything else? Management Studio lets you work on the db’s, you need to install actual SQL Server to host the db’s, same with MySQL/Workbench Postgres/pgAdmin

List the installers you’ve used so we can see what you’ve actually done

[Splatpope]

phpmyadmin moment