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>The port to which to connect can be overridden using a <SPAN
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>A port may be appended to the dataserver name:   <TT
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>If you specify <TT
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			as dataserver during login, <SPAN
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			Only Microsoft SQL Server instances are supported.  (This server feature was introduced with SQL Server 2000.)
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>Note that other <TT
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> For the technically curious: each SQL Server <I
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