How to find the port for MS SQL Server 2008?

Question

I am running MS SQL Server 2008 on my local machine. I know that the default port is 1433 but some how it is not listening at this port. The SQL is an Express edition.

Answer 1

You can use this two commands: tasklist and netstat -oan

Tasklist.exe is like taskmgr.exe but in text mode.

With tasklist.exe or taskmgr.exe you can obtain a PID of sqlservr.exe

With netstat -oan, it shows a connection PID, and you can filter it.

Example:

C:\>tasklist | find /i "sqlservr.exe"
sqlservr.exe  1184 Services    0 3.181.800 KB

C:\>netstat -oan | find /i "1184"
TCP  0.0.0.0:1280  0.0.0.0:0  LISTENING  1184

In this example, the SQLServer port is 1280

Extracted from: http://www.sysadmit.com/2016/03/mssql-ver-puerto-de-una-instancia.html