Hi,

Do I need to have an established static IP Address for the Windows server, so that my SQL server 2012 will have it's own IP address? So that I can access my database engine using the IP address only, not the whole name of the database engine.

Hello,

In a connection string / login dialog you already can use the ip address instead of the machine name. If you are using a "non-default" IP port = 1433, then you have to add the used IP port to the ip address, like:

192.168.0.1, 51077

(where 51077 is the used