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  • October 21, 2014 at 1:48 am

    #1753680

    Here's a good article on troubleshooting connectivity issues:

    http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/2102.how-to-troubleshoot-connecting-to-the-sql-server-database-engine.aspx

    -- Gianluca Sartori