Shared Memory Provider: No process is on the other end of the pipe. Communication link failure
1 min readOct 5, 2020
Have you encountered the error Shared Memory Provider: No process is on the other end of the pipe. Communication link failure?
I was doing a sqlcmd from the command line to import large .sql file as it is hanging or it can’t execute from the SQL Management Studio.
If you did, this is how I resolved this issue
sqlcmd -S MyServerName -U sa -P myPassword -d myDatabaseName-i ScriptToExecute.sql -a 32767
Add the parameter -a 32767
Then it all works!