I am running SQL SERVER 2014 Community and Windows 10. Yesterday when I started my computer and attempted to run a program I had developed under this setup I got this error:
"Un-handled exception has occurred in your application. If you click Continue the application will ignore this error and attempt to continue. If you click Quit, the application will close immediately.
A network related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that the SQL server is configured to allow remote connections.
(provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error 26 - Error Locating Server/Instance Specified)"
I then attempted to connect to the SQL Server vis SQL Server 2014 Management Studio and got this error message:
"Cannot connect to DARBYSTRAVELDEN\SQLEXPRESS2014.
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