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what error are you getting?

Connection string error

do you give me permission to attempt the connection myself?

Go for it, the database is empty since I never accessed it

I hope it's a typo on my end or something

i can connect just fine with dbgate

Hmm

Interesting, never used the tool before, only used mssql sms for mssql

you don't need to use it, it just means that there's no issues with the database or connection

I've tried using azure data studio as well with no success

hmm

it's something

there's nothng special about the image, is there?

it's just a barebones mssql image

correct

this isn't anything on the railway side of things

It seems like the template has a 30% success rate, am i reading it right?

let me give you a ss so you on't have to dig for what i'm talking about

yes because trial users attempt to deploy it not knowing that you need hobby to run it

ooooh, okay
so it's not something like "template needs perfecting" it might in fact be readable as "templates not used right"?

it could be either, but in this case it is the latter

Hey Brody

here: some extra nugget of information you can come back to

It's the fact that SSMS (the official tool) is unable to parse ports at GUI data entry for servers. So you can't do server:port, you have to go to the tab Additional Connection Parameters and write it like this:
Data Source=yourrlwypublicaddres.proxy.rlwy.net,YourPortNumberNoQuotes;

Anything written there overrides the info you write in the default server connection tab

However, one must select mandatory encryption and most likely also check the field "trust server certificate" in the first tab

so you got it to connect?

Yeah, with a bit more fiddling than expected on microsoft's side

Turns out this is a universal piece of info you can pass to other sufferers of Microsoft unique software design

it's always the formula: server,port if you have a non-default port for their services