Can't connect to SQL 2000 Personal Edition

• jackaroe

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  June 23, 2003 at 6:12 pm

  #76026

  I have a laptop running Win2K, SQL Server 7.0. I uninstalled SQL 7.0 and installed a fresh copy of SQL 2000 Personal Edition. I deleted the registration for the 7.0 server in EM, but when I try to create a new registration, I get the following error:

  SQL Server registration failed:

  SQL Server does not exist or access denied

  ConnectionOpen(Connect())

  I suspect the reason is that the registry on the laptop did not get cleaned up properly when SQL 7.0 was uninstalled.

  Any ideas?

  ~Neil

• mccork

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  June 24, 2003 at 2:28 am

  #462748

  Sounds like you didn't uninstall SQL Client Utilities. Try uninstalling everything, then installing SQl200 and its client utilities.

  
  Cheers,
  - Mark