A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server

  • Hi,

    Check SQL Server Browser service. Is it ON?

    Regards,
    Shafat Husain
    🙂
    And Your Lord Never Forgets...!! (64:19 -- Quran)

  • Hi,

    Thank you both for the help. I've managed to solve it myself.

    Simple thing - the server name I should be connecting to is ".\SQLEXPRESS", not "."...

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