I already have SQL server 2008 R2 on my system. I also installed SQL server 2012 express. Then, I uninstalled it and installed SQL server 2012 commercial edition. I cannot connect to my DB via management studio. These weird errors happen to me all the time - 2005, 2008, 2012. The numbers change. TCP/IP is enabled, service is enabled. I just want to be able to connect and put some test databases for learning.
Please help me to fix the error below -
Cannot connect to SuperPC\SQLEXPRESS.
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)
Make sure that the SQL Server Service is running. Go to services from start menu, and see SQL Server, if it's not running just right click and select Start.
When you uninstalled SQL Express you removed the SuperPC\SQLEXPRESS instance of SQL from your system. You will need to use a different SQL instance name. You would have set this name in the 2012 commercial version installation.
If the SQL 2008 R2 instance is the default instance on your system then the commercial SQL 2012 instance would have been installed as a named instance and you'd need to connect to it using the instance name you indicated during installation. You would connect to it using SuperPC\[new instance name] where you replace [new instance name] with the name of the instance you set during installation.
If the SQL 2008 R2 instance is not the default instance, then the new SQL 2012 instance MAY have been installed as the default instance, in which case you just connect to it using SuperPC. It COULD still have been installed as a named instance in which case you would need to follow the directions in the above paragraph.
EDIT:
Based on your comment on your question, try connecting with SuperPC\Sql2012.
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SQL Server 2014 Express is installed on a VM Windows Server 2016. There are several databases attached and when trying to import a table from one DB into another on the same server, I got the following error message:
Login timeout expired
A network-related or instance-specific error has occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. Server is not found or not accessible. Check if instance name is correct and if SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. For more information see SQL Server Books Online.
SQL Server Network Interfaces: Error Locating Server/Instance Specified [xFFFFFFFF]. (Microsoft SQL Server Native Client 11.0)
I can log onto SQL Server and run queries as per normal which includes joining tables from different databases but just can't export/import data within SQL Server using the import/export data wizard.
I have double checked that the server name is spelt correctly.
The export/import wizard has been working fine until about a week ago and there have not been any changes made to the configuration.
When trying to troubleshoot I tried to find the SQL Server Browser service in the SQL Server configuration manager was unable to. Not sure if this is relevant there is also SQL Server 2016 installed on the same VM and I do not see the SQL Server Browser server for this either but the Export/Import Wizard runs OK between the various databases on SQL Server 2016
Many thanks
I have a problem with SQL Server 2008 R2, when I try to connect to server it gives me the following message:
TITLE: Connect to Server
Cannot connect to (local).
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: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 - Could not open a connection to SQL Server)
(Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 2)
I found a couple of solutions for this, one of which told me to go the configuration manager and check the instance created by SQL Server. There was none. I found only this:
I need to learn SQL Server for a job, and I don't know what to do.
-- UPDATE --
I reinstalled SQL Server 2008 and some errors might have something to do with my issue..
errors in reinstalling
note: the first time I installed I was basically clueless, I might had the same errors before and I simply didn't notice..
This seems you only install SQL Server Management studio not whole SQL Server DBMS so you need to install SQL Server and then try again.To check that SQL Server is installed on my PC or not You can follow these Steps
1.In Window Run Type `services.msc`
2.Check that SQL Server Service is present or not
3.If Present Then Check in Running Mode or not.
4.if not here still SQL Server is not installed
Hope this helps you
You need to install SQL server and SQL Server studio management tool. Seems you are trying to install SQL Server 2008.
Go to this link and download the version of SQL Server 2008 you are after
32 or 64 bit
https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/download/details.aspx?id=1695
Then install a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Management Studio.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/download/details.aspx?id=7593
If you have windows 8.1 and upwards you can install the newer version of MSSQL which comes with Management studio. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/sql-server-downloads.
I have Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 installed (on Windows 10) and need access to SQL Server. I thought the server was included in the installation of VS, but begin to suspect that I was wrong.
I can see programs under Control panel, like SQL Server 2012 Native Client, SQL Server Express 2014 Localdb, some different management tools, etc.
I concluded that the SQL server and management tools were integrated, but can not run the server via my VS:
Can not connect to ... A network-related or instance-specific error ocurred 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 configurated to allow remote connections. (provider: Named Pipes Provider, Error: 40 – could not open a connection to SQL-Server) (Microsoft SQL Server, Error 2 ... Unable to find the file.
I realized that I need to configure the firewall in some way, perhaps even make further adjustments/configurations. But I also think that I still have to install? How do I make these configurations?
Do I need both the SQL Server and Management? Or is it enough with the VS for management? If installation is needed, does it matter which version I choose? (I have access to DreamSpark: Web Edition, Express, ordinary etc. - 2014 and 2016). As you can tell I am a total beginner and need some help to point me in the right direction…
My laptop has Windows 7, x64 bit, and was built this past December (2 months ago). It has Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 installed with SQL Server 2008 Express, but I had not used "Sql2008" before on this PC.
SQL Server Management Studio has been installed all that time, and I use it to connect to our company's instance of SQL Server.
Now, I need to do some development and debugging on a large stored procedure that is not returning the data we expect. I got a backup of the database companyDB.bak and moved that to my Win7x64 laptop in this folder: C:\Temp\companyDB.bak.
I open SQL Server Management Studio and select (local) and click "Connect":
After some time, I get error message:
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: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 - Could not open a connection to SQL Server) (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 2)
I do some research and found this helpful link: SQL SERVER – FIX : ERROR : (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 – Could not open a connection to SQL Server) (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: )
His first step is to make sure SQL Server is running, which it seems to be:
Next, it says to make sure I am using TCP/IP Port 1433. When I looked, it seemed all of mine were BLANK, so I changed them so that all use Port 1433, then Stopped and Restarted the service:
OK, now I can get my local instance to start up.
When I attempted to restore the database using my "companyDB.bak" file, I get an error saying the database I am restoring from is newer than I am saving it to:
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlError: The database was backed up on a server running version 10.50.1600. That version is incompatible with this server, which is running version 10.00.2531. Either restore the database on a server that supports the backup, or use a backup that is compatible with this server. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo)
So, I downloaded SQLEXPRWT_x64_ENU.exe from here: from here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30438
During installation, I get this error saying that it can't install until **SQL Server 2005 Express Tools" are removed:
Now below, if you will notice, I did a search of the items installed under my computer, and the only thing there is with "2005" in the title is VC++ 2005 Redistributable:
So, I cancelled the installation and started it again, this time selecting the "Upgrade from SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2005 or SQL Server 2008" option, but I got the same error message.
I do not seem to be able to continue.
Obviously, some of my installed applications need VC++ 2005 Redistributable, or I would not have installed it a few months ago.
How do I proceed?
[UPDATE]:
Following Davide Mauri's SQL Server 2008 R2 Installation and the Phantom of SQL Server 2005 Express blog, I searched for the term Sql2005SsmsExpressFacet in the log file "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Setup Bootstrap\Log\yyyymmdd_hhmmss\Detail.txt".
It only pointed to a single registry entry (where his pointed at two): ""
Init rule target object: Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.SetupExtension.Sql2005SsmsExpressFacet
Sco: Attempting to create base registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, machine
Sco: Attempting to open registry subkey
Sco: Attempting to open registry subkey SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\ShellSEM
Rule 'Sql2005SsmsExpressFacet' detection result: SQL 2005 Ssms EE installed=True
Evaluating rule : Sql2005SsmsExpressFacet
Rule running on machine: 5000-C6E8-1
Rule evaluation done : Failed
Rule evaluation message: The SQL Server 2005 Express Tools are installed. To continue, remove the SQL Server 2005 Express Tools.
But, my registry does not even HAVE that directory:
[UPDATE 2]:
OK, so our IT guy has given me the full blown SQL Server 2008 R2 CD to install, but I am still hitting this same roadblock with it thinking that SQL Server 2005 Express tools are still installed - so I can not move forward.
To fix this, I did the following:
Uninstall all of the SQL Management Studio instances I had
reboot
Install SQL Server 2008 (not the Express version)
reboot
Tada!
I guess Microsoft likes selling their product, and it worked.
I am trying to connect to a SQL Server Express instance on my laptop; I have SQL Server 2008 installed in my system, but when I try to put the instance (local)/SQLEXPRESS or Jashobanta-PC/SQLEXPRESS in my system, I am not able to connect to it. It is appearing that it is not even present in my system.
I am getting the following error :-
A network-related or instance-specific error has occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. Server is not found or not accessible. Check if instance name is correct and if SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. For more information see SQL Server Books Online..
I have tried using the SQLCMD command tool also for this, but the result is same:-
sqlcmd -E -S .\SQLEXPRESS
Here also the same error is appearing.
Is there any chance that SQLEXPRESS is not installed in my system? But as MVC Code First uses SQL Server Express, I need it. When I use code first, then the files are created fine, but how it is connecting, where it is creating the database, it is not known.
Any suggestions will be helpful.
Thanks in advance
Jashobanta
I had a similar issue to this, so for google purposes I'll list my result.
My take on the problem was that I had a SQL2008 Express instance, that had 'gone dark' because I'd installed a full instance of SQL2008R2 and/or SQL Express 2012. My guess is that one or the other of these turns off the out-of-date express instance as a security risk.
These instances were installed as fresh instance names, but somewhere along the way my (local)\SQLEXPRESS instance was disabled.
Using this link I used the SQL2008R2 installer to upgrade the SQLEXPRESS instance that the installer detected.
Once the SQLEXPRESS instance was upgraded to 2008R2 it was happily re-enabled and accessible at (local)\SQLEXPRESS, with all my previous databases inside it.
I have a same problem just now. What you need to do to resolve the problem is to install SQL Server 2008 Express edition.
You can do this by searching "SQL Express" from Web Platform Installer and install "SQL Server 2008 Express with Advanced Series" and "SQL Server 2008 Express with Tools".
Or
Download from this url and install.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=1695
.\SQLEXPRESS is SQL Express for SQL Server 2008 while
(LocalDB)\v11.0 is SQL Express for SQL Server 2012 / 14