Posted by shelah on 09/19/05 16:17

I am a newbie and have installed SQL Server myself on my home machine,
where I'm having problems. When I run the Query Analyzer, I get an
empty result set for all queries, with the message, "The command(s)
completed successfully." So, for instance, if I were to go to
Northwind and type "SELECT * from Employees", which we KNOW isn't
empty, all I see is "The command(s) completed successfully." How do I
get query results?

I thought maybe the problem was permissions. I'm logged into my local
server, which is the computer on which I'm running. The owner is just
"ZIPPY/Owner", ZIPPY being my machine name; since I'm the only one who
uses the computer, I don't even log in, I just take the default "Owner"
account. I start up the SQL analyzer with Windows credentials.

Anyone have a clue what I'm doing wrong?

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