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| Photomonkey... |
 Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 10:06 pm |
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Hi,
I have just installed on my machine Visual Studio 2008 and and Sql
Server 2008 developer edition. Sql server is working fine when I
access it from the sql server management studio, however I have not
been able to access it from visual studio. On the Add Connection
dialog, under the server name I am only able to see the sqlexpress
instance.
Does anybody know what I need to do in order to be able to access my
sql server 2008 instance? Any suggestions would be greatly
appreciated!
Paulo |
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| Photomonkey... |
| Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 12:09 am |
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Well, I have been trying different things and it seems that if I
write .\ on the server name field I get to see all databases on the
SQL Server instance and I am able to create the connection. However it
would be interesting to know how to have the sql server instance shown
by default.
Paulo
On 8 Okt, 00:06, Photomonkey <paulouvro... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:
Quote: Hi,
I have just installed on my machine Visual Studio 2008 and and Sql
Server 2008 developer edition. Sql server is working fine when I
access it from the sql server management studio, however I have not
been able to access it from visual studio. On the Add Connection
dialog, under the server name I am only able to see the sqlexpress
instance.
Does anybody know what I need to do in order to be able to access my
sql server 2008 instance? Any suggestions would be greatly
appreciated!
Paulo |
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| Erland Sommarskog... |
| Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 9:58 pm |
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