December 2013
Intermediate to advanced
1872 pages
153h 31m
English
book
Microsoft® SQL Server 2012 Unleashed
by Ray Rankins, Paul T. Bertucci, Chris Gallelli, Alex T. Silverstein
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The Role of SQL Browser
You might be surprised to learn that when clients try to connect to SQL Server 2012, their first network access is made over UDP Port 1434 to the SQL Browser service.
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Regardless of the encryption status of the connection itself, login credentials are always encrypted when passed to SQL Server 2012 (to foil any malicious packet sniffing). If a certificate signed by an external authority (such as VeriSign) is not installed on the server, SQL Server automatically generates a self-signed certificate for use in encrypting login credentials.
SQL Browser is the upgrade to the old SQL Server Resolution Protocol (SSRP), and its job is to hand out instance names, version numbers, and connection information for each (nonhidden) ...