This refers to KB article at: Home/Knowledge Base/Winhost/Databases/MS SQL 2008/Publishing your SQL 2008 database to the Winhost SQL 2008 Server. In the third set of instructions it's written: 1. Open your database in SQL Server Management Studio 2008. 2. Click File/Open/File and navigate to the SQL script you just created from your SQL Server. I'm using SSMS version 10.50.2500 standard for sql08 R2. In this version, selecting File >> Open >> File does not do what this article implies. All this does is open the target file you choose; nothing else. In my version, the correct step here is to go: File >> Open >> File with New Connection... This opens the selected file, then brings up the sql connection modal after the file is opened. The way it's now written is definitely going to puzzle some folks, I think.