https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Open-Q-A/Connection-to-a-database/m-p/283193#M37273 <P>Hi, the host name of my database includes a \ (which is recognized as invalid by Dynatrace when connecting to it frmo the sql extension). How can I circumvent that? Since changing the hostname would involve a lot of server downtime since everything points to the name with \</P> Tue, 23 Dec 2025 16:05:22 GMT IgnacioAyerra 2025-12-23T16:05:22Z https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Open-Q-A/Connection-to-a-database/m-p/283193#M37273 <P>Hi, the host name of my database includes a \ (which is recognized as invalid by Dynatrace when connecting to it frmo the sql extension). How can I circumvent that? Since changing the hostname would involve a lot of server downtime since everything points to the name with \</P> Tue, 23 Dec 2025 16:05:22 GMT https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Open-Q-A/Connection-to-a-database/m-p/283193#M37273 IgnacioAyerra 2025-12-23T16:05:22Z https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Open-Q-A/Connection-to-a-database/m-p/283218#M37282 <P>You can try the connection with the IP instead.</P> Wed, 06 Aug 2025 19:12:33 GMT https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Open-Q-A/Connection-to-a-database/m-p/283218#M37282 dannemca 2025-08-06T19:12:33Z https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Open-Q-A/Connection-to-a-database/m-p/283322#M37293 <P>In what universe is backslash a valid character in a hostname?<BR />Sure, there are UTF-8 characters possible in the DNS (very bad choice), see&nbsp;<A href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name</A>&nbsp;but those are translated to valid ascii characters.</P> Thu, 07 Aug 2025 18:24:01 GMT https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Open-Q-A/Connection-to-a-database/m-p/283322#M37293 Julius_Loman 2025-08-07T18:24:01Z