How to Connect Metabase with MSSQL Server Express Edition

CA Amit Singh
3 min readJul 1, 2024

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Metabase: is the easy, open-source way for everyone in your company to ask questions, learn from data & get business intelligence and analytics to everyone in your company

SQL Server 2022 Express is a free edition of SQL Server, ideal for development and production for desktop, web, and small server applications.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/sql-server-downloads

Here is how to Connect Metabase with MSSQL Server Express Edition

Step 01: Click on admin settings

Step 02: Click on add a database

Step 03: Enter Database Type as MSSQL Server

Step 04: Enter Display name

Step 05: Enter Host as Localhost.

Step 06: Enter port as 1433

Step 07: Enter Database name

Step 08: Enter user name for database

Step 09: Enter password for Database

Step 10: Click on save.

Step 10: Now click on exit admin.

Step 11: Click on table to view data

Step 12: Now it will show quick look of table

Here is Youtube video for quick visual reference.

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CA Amit Singh
CA Amit Singh

Written by CA Amit Singh

Qualified Chartered Accountant & Multi Technology Trainer with 25 yrs of Multi Technology/ Multi Industry Experience. www.linkedin.com/in/ca-amit-singh-07babb

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