Arthur Fuller
fuller.artful at gmail.com
Sun May 15 10:37:44 CDT 2011
Lately I've been rebuilding my main box. It's running Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit, and SQL 2008 Enterprise 64-bit.The SQL installation seemed to go perfectly, but when I try to run Management Studio I am unable to connect. I get a message saying "a network 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 remove connections. (provider:Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 - Could not open a connection to SQL Server, error: 2). This was from trying to connect to Database Engine. However I am able to connect to Analysis Services (which happens to contain no databases at the moment, but at least I can connect). Any idea what might be wrong and how I can fix it? TIA, Arthur