The server was not found or was not accessible

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Error/Issue:

While creating a SQL API Connection in  a logic app, got following notification


The server was not found


Please check your account info and/or permissions and try again. Details: Microsoft SQL: A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: TCP Provider, error: 0 - No such host is known.)

The error says that  : The server was not found or was not accessible.

However as can be seen in above image, I had provided the name of server against SQL server name.





Why it happened

It was due to missing FQDN.

Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDN) are complete addresses of websites, computers and other entities that can be accessed on the Internet.

The FQDN consists of two parts: the hostname and the domain name

A fully qualified domain name is always written in this format: [hostname]. [domain]. [tld].

For example, a mail server on the example.com domain may use the FQDN mail.example.com

And the property SQL server name in above image although it says name but it actually expects the address for your SQL server(the value in FQDN format). 

However only the host part of FQDN was provided.

Thus it was not able to find the server.

What to do

Provide the full address(FQDN)


Provide FQDN against SQL Server Name



That's it, now it was able to connect .



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