Thursday, 22 March 2012

connect to local SQL2000 server from IDE

Can I connect to a local SQL2000 server from the IDE. I saw the "SQL Server Instance Name" option and tried to change it to both (local) and SQL2K, but it then tries to connect to ./SQL2K etc and fails.

I can only seem to

(1) connect to a named instance (./namedinstancename), which I do not use.

(2) be able to attach a new mdf, rather than connect to an existing db
I know that the express edition is restricted to local dbs, but is it also restricted to named instances?

ThanksCan you post the steps you used to find this. I can't seem to reproduce the problem.|||If the SQL2k instance is a default instance then you can connect just by using . or (local) or <<machinename>>. There is no need to tell SSMS that it is connecting to a SQL2k instance it will detect automatically.

If the instance is named then you need one of the above and then the instance name.

-Euan

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|||Can you kindly send the steps to create a db and table in sql2000?sqlsql

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