How do I open an SDF file in SQL Server Management Studio 2012?

3 Answers

1. Open SQL Server Management Studio, or if it’s running select File -> Connect Object Explorer…
2. In the Connect to Server dialog change Server type to SQL Server Compact Edition.
3. From the Database file dropdown select < Browse for more…>
4. Open your SDF file.

How do I open an SDF file in SQL Server Management Studio?

The steps are not all that intuitive:

1. Open SQL Server Management Studio, or if it’s running select File -> Connect Object Explorer…
2. In the Connect to Server dialog change Server type to SQL Server Compact Edition.
3. From the Database file dropdown select < Browse for more…>
4. Open your SDF file.

How to open sdf file in SQL management studio?

Open SQL Server Management Studio, or if it’s running select File -> Connect Object Explorer… Open your SDF file. It didn’t work for me, the open source Compact View mentioned by Ivan worked. I tried SQL Management Studio 2008 Express and my sdf file was Sql Ce version 4.0 – Nikolaos Georgiou Jan 21 ’12 at 13:59

Which is the best SQL Server management studio?

Download SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is an integrated environment for managing any SQL infrastructure, from SQL Server to Azure SQL Database. SSMS provides tools to configure, monitor, and administer instances of SQL Server and databases.

How to connect sdf file to SQL Server Compact?

Please use the Transact SQL editors in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) or Webmatrix instead. For more details, please take a look at this similar thread. Connect->SQL server compact… locate the TEST.sdf in the “Connect to SQL server” dialog and provide DB password.

Can you use SSMS to connect sdf file?

I used VS 2012 to create a desktop database mytest.sdf and tried to use MS SQL Server 2012 SSMS to open it, but I got error message and can not open the database. I just wonder does MS SQL Server 2012 support to open SDF file. If yes, how I can access SDF file.