Hi, and thank you for the reply. Sorry that I did not
make this more clear to begin with. No, I do not have two
instances installed, and I don't want two instances
installed. I guess somewhere in the middle of all the
trouble I had installing MSDE it created some kind of
bogus instance. All the readings I have read say that a
default instance in the registry will be located under
MSSQL Server and a named instance will be under Microsoft
SQL Server. I have deleted the MSSQL Server key and then
everything works fine until I reboot, then the key is re-
created. I can log off and back on after the key is
deleted and it works like it is supposed to.
When I open SVRNETCN.exe it says that I have two instances
installed:
1.) computername
2.) computername\instancename
I cannot find a way to get rid of "computername" and that
is the way that it is loading by default.
Let me know if you need more info and I hope I made it a
little more clear.
Thanks,
Chris
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>hi Chris,
>"Chris" <ckujawa@kcpag.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
>news:010701c4ac9d$fa3d49a0$a501280a@phx.gbl
>> Hello everyone. After finally getting MSDE installed, I
>> am having trouble with instances. At bootup the
instance
>> that is loading is the wrong one, and is not working.
The
>> instance that is loading is just "computername," and I
>> need "computername\instance" to load. I have checked
the
>> registry for the other instance and it is not there.
The
>> only place I can find this instance is when I open the
SQL
>> Server Service Manager and click the drop down menu for
>> server. When I select the "computername\instance" from
>> the drop down menu everything works fine, it is just
>> initially it loads a defective instance. Anyone have
any
>> ideas??
>
>Just a question.... to understand...
>you do have 2 MSDE instances installed....
>a default instance and a named instance... please verify
that both (or the
>instance you are interestd in) services are set to start
at bootstrap,
>inspecting the Windows services manager (control panel-
>administrative
>tools->services).. startup has to be "Automatic"...
>
>why the default instance is not working?
>--
>Andrea Montanari (Microsoft MVP - SQL Server)
>
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>(my vb6+sql-dmo little try to provide MS MSDE 1.0 and
MSDE 2000 a visual
>interface)
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