SQL Server Network Interfaces: Connection string is not valid [87]

Question

When I am running this from cmd on my SQL Server 2008 instance:

sqlcmd -U sa -S mymachinen_name\\MSSQLSERVER

(where MSSQLSERVER

Answer 1

I encountered this error trying to connect to the server through Jenkins and resolved it this way:

sqlcmd  -e -S "SERVER_NAME,PORT_NUMBER" -U %USER% -P %PASSWORD% -i "D:\\test.sql"