Sunday, February 12, 2012

Cannot run apparently successful installation of SQL Server Express

I am completely new to SQL Server, and have downloaded and installed Visual Web Developer and Visual Basic Express without problems
I have downloaded SQL Server Express and cannot figure how to start it up! SQL Server Management Studio Express CTP does nothing when I try to run it.

No doubt this is a very simple error or series of errors by me, but I would appreciate help.

Many thanks.

Nick

I am assuming you are installed it with default value, where express would be installed as instance sqlexpress.

1. Did you see express in Obj Explorer of MS Express ("<machine-name>\SQLEXPRESS") ? If so you could just right click on that node -> Start.

2. Alternatively, try to start it from command line by:

net start mssql$sqlexpress

|||Many thanks for your help Hungfu. I am trying your solutions which report back that SQLSever Express is running. I suspect my remaining problems are related to the CTP version!
Regards
Nick

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