I am running Windowa XP, and I am trying to connect to any dataabase with ms sql server express, I know this is probably a newbee question, but I am a newbee kinda guy. When I try to connect I get the msg. ------------------------------Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio
Error connecting to 'ABCD-6051A2AB71\SQLEXPRESS'.
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 26 - Error Locating Server/Instance Specified) (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: -1)
At other times when I try to connect, it say's that possibly the server is not running, and indeed it is not. However I cannot get it to start, The Browser is running , both are NT AUTHORITY\LOCAL SERVICE. I could use some help here, I am trying to learn this, but at this rate I am getting nowhere fast. In advance, Thanks
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