Posted by Greg D. Moore \(Strider\) on 11/03/06 11:40

"Rick" <rlc_60504@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1162528400.038379.136840@h54g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> I'm taking a .NET class and I have SQL Server 2005 installed on my
> machine. When I go into Studio and then select Server Explorer and try
> to add a new Connection, it seems to bomb out when I type in
> 'localhost' for the server name. It doesn't come back with anything
> for the DBS. Is there something I need to do to get my machine to
> understand 'localhost'?


Very likely you have SQL 2005 installed as a named instance, so you have to
specifically provide the hostname AND isntance name.


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