Ok, I checked the similar questions that were presented to me, not wanting to ask the same question that was already answered, and I was left confused. The top related question seems to be titled exactly the same as what I am asking but it deals with
something called "LightSwitch." Other questions seem to have responses that contradict one another. In one place it says that you cannot change the name of an instance of sqlserver express and then further down there seem to be steps
for doing just that, changing the instance name.
For some reason, at some point, I named my instance mysqlexpress instead of just sqlexpress. I am trying to follow some exercises on Lynda.com that deal with ASP.NET website development. There are exercise files that I open with Open Existing
Website. Then I update the build from 3.5 to 4.5 (the course was updated instead of completely re-created for the new version of the .NET framework).&nbs ...
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