ObjectExplorer error: Dedicated administrator connections are not supported

Dedicated Administrator Connection (DAC) is a type of privileged connection that we can establish to SQL Server database engine when it does not respond because of too much workload. In this context, DAC is truly useful which allow to diagnosis and solve this sort of problems without restarting the database server any longer. Its is said that it is not possible to establish a DAC connection to the Object Explorer panel via SSMS so that we can get the following error while trying do it in that way:

   Cannot connect to admin:<SQLInstanceFullName>.
   Dedicated administrator connections are not supported. (ObjectExplorer)



It is true up to a point, but it does not mean that SSMS does not support DAC connections. Therefore, the question is:  can we ONLY establish a DAC connection to SQL Server by using SQLCMD? the answer is 'NO'. We also can do it via SSMS while creating a new SQL Query, which means that instead of clicking on 'Object Explorer' and 'Connect', we must click on 'New Query' and finally write 'admin:<Full Name of SQL Instance>' on 'Server Name' text box. That is all, it couldn't have been simpler.



Having done that, we will have a DAC connection ready via SSMS. Let me know any remarks you may have. Thanks for reading. Stay tuned.