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Connect your database

JavaScript
SQL Server

To connect your database, you need to set the url field of the datasource block in your Prisma schema to your database connection URL:

prisma/schema.prisma
datasource db {
  provider = "sqlserver"
  url      = env("DATABASE_URL")
}

In this case, the url is set via an environment variable which is defined in .env:

The following example connection URL uses SQL authentication, but there are other ways to format your connection URL

.env
  DATABASE_URL="sqlserver://localhost:1433;database=mydb;user=sa;password=r@ndomP@$$w0rd;trustServerCertificate=true"
info

We recommend adding .env to your .gitignore file to prevent committing your environment variables.

Adjust the connection URL to match your setup - see Microsoft SQL Server connection URL for more information.

Make sure TCP/IP connections are enabled via SQL Server Configuration Manager to avoid No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (os error 10061)