A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server

• Shafat Husain

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  December 24, 2014 at 4:14 am

  #1766319

  Hi,

  Check SQL Server Browser service. Is it ON?

  Regards,
  Shafat Husain
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  And Your Lord Never Forgets...!! (64:19 -- Quran)

• adam.klimczyk

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  December 24, 2014 at 4:51 am

  #1766321

  Hi,

  Thank you both for the help. I've managed to solve it myself.

  Simple thing - the server name I should be connecting to is ".\SQLEXPRESS", not "."...

• July 31, 2017 at 5:47 am

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• Perry Whittle

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  July 31, 2017 at 8:40 am

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