Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 11/14/05 01:29

(Danieltbt05@gmail.com) writes:
> just installed SQL server 2000 and using my client , i can't locate
> the server. I used SQL query analyzer to search but no servers were
> found. Error message is as below
>
>
> Server : Msg17,level 16, state1
> [Microsoft][ODBC SQL server driver][DBnetlib] SQL server does not exist
>
> or denied access.

Which means that ODBC cannot find the SQL Server. There are a number
of possible reasons. The most trivial is that SQL Server is not running.

For other possible reasons check
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q328306.


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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se

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