Clear Database Engine Server Name drop down

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Clear Database Engine Server Name drop down

b-dubs

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November 5, 2008 at 6:14 am

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I have managed to fat finger a number of database engine server names that do not exist and now want to clear that list to start over. Anyone know how to do this?

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Lowell SSC Guru Points: 323504 More actions · Answer 1

I looked in the registry on my machine, and I think this is where you want to go to delete old servers you no longer connect to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSSQLServer\Client\SuperSocketNetLib\LastConnect

mine has a list of 10 or so servers, all of which appear in the drop down for SSMS for me

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Rayven SSCarpal Tunnel Points: 4337 More actions · Answer 2

I'm using the SQL2008 SSMS and have the same problem. I've found these keys and sure enough they list all of the valid servers I've connected to, but where I've mistyped a servername, it appears in the drop down but not in this are of the registry. Any more ideas?

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tieudu09 55544 SSC Journeyman Points: 75 More actions · Answer 3

try this

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server

remove the key name MSSQL10.(the servername want to remove)

Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182882 More actions · Answer 4

tieudu09 55544 (5/9/2014)
try this
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server
remove the key name MSSQL10.(the servername want to remove)

This has nothing to do with the Connection MRU (Most Recently Used), the registry keys for 2012/2014 are under

[font="Courier New"]HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\[version number]\SSDT\ConnectionMruList[/font]

where the [version number] denotes the server version. If I remember correctly, it's under

[font="Courier New"]HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\SQL Server Management Studio[/font]

for earlier versions.

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David Burrows SSC Guru Points: 65138 More actions · Answer 5

For 2008 the list is actually in a binary file

%AppData%\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\Shell\SqlStudio.bin

Removing this file will clear the list BUT WILL ALSO REMOVE ALL OTHER SSMS SETTINGS

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Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182882 More actions · Answer 6

David Burrows (5/10/2014)
For 2008 the list is actually in a binary file
%AppData%\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\Shell\SqlStudio.bin
Removing this file will clear the list BUT WILL ALSO REMOVE ALL OTHER SSMS SETTINGS

Thanks David for the correction!

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David Burrows SSC Guru Points: 65138 More actions · Answer 7

no problem 🙂

It always annoys me when MS keeps changing config files and locations and why oh why try to obfuscate it in a binary file :crazy:

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