Comments on: “Unable to Establish Server Mode” Error in SSMS http://cwebbbi.wordpress.com/2012/05/28/unable-to-establish-server-mode-error-in-ssms/ Analysis Services, MDX, PowerPivot, DAX and anything BI-related Sat, 18 May 2013 22:38:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Monish http://cwebbbi.wordpress.com/2012/05/28/unable-to-establish-server-mode-error-in-ssms/#comment-8427 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 05:20:02 +0000 https://cwebbbi.wordpress.com/?p=1545#comment-8427 Thanks Chris for the reply. The issue is fixed. I repaired the SQL Server Tabular instance using the setup.exe and restarted the SQL Server Brower, SSAS service and Database engine. It is working well now.

]]> By: Chris Webb http://cwebbbi.wordpress.com/2012/05/28/unable-to-establish-server-mode-error-in-ssms/#comment-8419 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 16:07:29 +0000 https://cwebbbi.wordpress.com/?p=1545#comment-8419 It’s hard to say what’s going on. Maybe a security permissions or firewall issue?

]]> By: Monish http://cwebbbi.wordpress.com/2012/05/28/unable-to-establish-server-mode-error-in-ssms/#comment-8418 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 15:42:39 +0000 https://cwebbbi.wordpress.com/?p=1545#comment-8418 The problem is not with SSMS utility because I am able to access Tabular Model from other machines. But tabular model to which I am not able to connect, is easily getting connected in Excel 2013. There is something wrong in the latter, I think.

]]> By: Monish http://cwebbbi.wordpress.com/2012/05/28/unable-to-establish-server-mode-error-in-ssms/#comment-8410 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 12:44:09 +0000 https://cwebbbi.wordpress.com/?p=1545#comment-8410 Hi Chris
I am facing the same issue. ‘Connect to database’ dropdown on the Connection Properties has <>. Even tabular database is not corrupt as i am able to access it from my Excel 2013. I think the problem is with the SSMS utility.

]]> By: Chris Webb http://cwebbbi.wordpress.com/2012/05/28/unable-to-establish-server-mode-error-in-ssms/#comment-6004 Thu, 11 Oct 2012 08:03:03 +0000 https://cwebbbi.wordpress.com/?p=1545#comment-6004 It could well be that your database has become corrupt, or possibly that you’re trying to connect to a database in SSMS that doesn’t exist any more (go to the Connection Properties tab in the connection dialog and make sure that the Connect to Database dropdown is set to default, or to a database that exists).

]]> By: Pavan http://cwebbbi.wordpress.com/2012/05/28/unable-to-establish-server-mode-error-in-ssms/#comment-6003 Thu, 11 Oct 2012 07:27:54 +0000 https://cwebbbi.wordpress.com/?p=1545#comment-6003 I am facing the same issue, even after changing the connection to “”

]]> By: Luis Figueroa (@luisefigueroa) http://cwebbbi.wordpress.com/2012/05/28/unable-to-establish-server-mode-error-in-ssms/#comment-3600 Tue, 05 Jun 2012 14:12:45 +0000 https://cwebbbi.wordpress.com/?p=1545#comment-3600 Well, once again a very helpful blog post. I was ready to reinstall SSMS on my VM. Since I was able to connect to the SSAS instance from SSMS in other servers I thought there was something wrong with the application in my VM but something was telling me that there was more to it so I had not reinstalled yet.

I had connected to a workspace database about a week ago and I also have the Workspace Retention property in SSDT to “Unload from memory” I don’t recall changing the database in the connection properties but that was days ago so maybe I did. I followed your instructions and the connection property was in fact pointing to the workspace database. I made the change to default and I am able to connect to the instance once again.

Thanks Chris!
@luisefigueroa

]]>