July 24, 2008 at 10:28 am
Hello,
I work in a software company and our product installs a local English instance of SQL 2005 Express as an option if the user does not have a full SQL server at their disposal. It is a typical named instance.
We will also install a new named instance if SQL 2005 Express already exists with a default instance. In testing the software I ran across an issue that I cannot find a definitive answer to and the scenario is as follows:
-A German OS Windows 2003 R2 Server with all SP's and patches.
-A default instance of German SQL 2005 Express w/ SP1 is installed.
-When I kick off our software it asks if I would like to install a named instance of SQL 2005 Express.
-It starts to install and then fails with the following error.
System.Exception: Unable to connect to database '':
Fehler beim Herstellen einer Verbindung mit dem Server. Beim Herstellen einer Verbindung mit SQL Server 2005 kann dieser Fehler dadurch verursacht werden, dass unter den SQL Server-Standardeinstellungen Remoteverbindungen nicht zulässig sind. (provider: SQL-Netzwerkschnittstellen, error: 26 - Fehler beim Bestimmen des angegebenen Servers/der angegebenen Instanz).
It seems to be trying to do a remote connection but everything is local.
My question is .... If a German edition of SQL 2005 Express is installed on a German Win2K3R2 OS, is it possible to install a new instance in US English on the same machine ? English on English works like a charm. I am only having this issue when I try to install a second instance in a second language.
July 24, 2008 at 10:40 am
That's an interesting one, and you might need to contact MS on this. Express should do multiple instances without an issue, but I can see that the languages could be a place someone forgot to place a check.
I'll ping a few people and see what they say.
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