Unable to log into SQL
Posted by: Jason Tramer
IT professional
Here is the error
“An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections. (provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 26 - Error Locating Server/Instance Specified)”
The soltuon? SQLServeragent service wasn’t running. Not a difficult problem in the scheme of things but is it too much to ask of software vendors to program in error messages that actually point you in the right direction?
How hard would it be to provide an error message like “The SQLserver agent service currently is running. Please go into the services MMC in order to enable it”. Would that make people’s lives to simple?
Comment
RSS Feed
Email a friend
You must be logged-in to post a comment. Log-in/Register