I am pretty much at a loss here, this should be easy. All I am trying to do is install a simple instance of SQL 2008 R2 Express on a Windows 2K8 x64 Server. No luck. The domain name is COPPER, the ...

We're doing some house cleaning at work (some servers are getting moved around in the datacenter, etc etc) and so one of the test boxes I use here at work finally got moved into the datacenter. Great, ...

You will fail to connect to your database if the SQL Server service is not running. If you try running the SQL Server service from the Services.msc app, you will ...

Today’s README file explains how to create connection strings to SQL Server databases using Visual Studio’s built-in tools. To provide an example using real source, I created a simple Winforms ...