I am trying hard to get my downloaded SQL server express working.
I need to have use of the reporting services.
This appears on my start menu, but clicking it gives a message that
devenv.exe is missing and can't be found anywhere.

We are experiencing a frustrating problem where we can connect to an internal
SQL Server via any application EXCEPT Office apps (Excel, Word, etc.) using
VBA. The error is:
  [DBNETLIB][ConnectionOpen(Connect()).]SQL Server does not exist or access

I am having trouble extracting data from a Navision
database via an sql linked server. I am using sql server 2000.
The steps I have followed so far are;
I installed the codbc driver, (the odbc driver which comes

I have just installed SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition. I have Microsoft
Windows 2000. When I start SQL Server Management Studio and have to choose a
server from the Server name list, the list is empty. I have no clue what to
do?

I installed SQLServer 2005 with OS winserver 2003.
When connect to SQLServer 2005 i have received message: "Microsoft SQL
Server, error 233".
pls help me.

Using Windows Server 2003 Standard, and SQL Server 2000 Standard SP4 on the
same personal development PC to test a newbie web service connecting to a
local database from an C:\Inetpub\wwwroot web site (local machine).  I am
unable to get a good connection, with the connection ...

I am attempting to run a stored procedure which inserts data on a remote
server but I`m getting the following
Server: Msg 7391, Level 16, State 1, Procedure ETrackerExportRoutine, Line 38
The operation could not be performed because the OLE DB provider 'SQLOLEDB'

I'm trying to connect to MS SQL Server using a pooled connection.
But, my servlet is not getting DataSource information from configuration
files. Can you help me ?
This is how my servlet tries to get pool information:

I am not been able to connect to SQL Server with Enterprise Manger as I
increased the number of databases upto 170 .Earlier i had no problem when I
had less of databases .Moreover there is no problem in connecting through
Query Analyser.

The new version of the SQL Server 2005 JDBC driver is now generally
available here:  http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/jdbc.
This latest version of the JDBC driver includes support for integrated
authentication and database mirroring and a number of performance

I try to set the readOnly-Flag of a connection by calling the method
connection.setReadOnly(true);
This doesn´t seem to work because the method connection.isReadOnly() then
always returns false. (Also read in the docs that these methods are not

I'm attempting to connect my .asp page to an SQL 2005 server and I'm
receiving the following error:
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Login failed for user ''. The
user is not associated with a trusted SQL Server connection.

Our current program use ADO to connect oto SQL2000 and run fine.
We are planning to migrate to SQL2005.
When we clean install the SQL2005, create the database, set compatibility
level to 80 and generate the db structure, and migrate data.

The DBA set database on server to a high TCP port number.
How can I connect to it from Microsoft SQL2005 management Studio.
I can't find the option to set TCP port number in there.
Thanks!

I setup the SQL2000 db to listen to the default and additional port 5000
through the server network utility. i go and do the netstat -a  in command
prompt and i don't see sql server listening for those ports, i open the log
files and it is not listening,