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Failed to generate a user instance of SQL Server due to a failure in starting the process for the user instance. The connection will be closed.

Started by eibrahim · 10 months ago

I had to uninstall and reinstall SQL server 2005 and Express on my development machine. After the un-installation, I reinstalled SQL 2005 standard then SQL Express. When I tried to open a SQL express database in VS2k5 I got the error “Failed to generate a user instance of SQL Server ... Continue reading »

16 comments

pipedings
1 year ago

GET A DECENT DATABASE, LIKE POSTGRES OR DB2.

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lenin
1 year ago

No i tried your suggestion it didn't solve my problem.

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response to pipedings
1 year ago

"GET A DECENT DATABASE, LIKE POSTGRES OR DB2"
Ignorance such as "Every thing that I do not know is bad", sometimes is blissful.
First learn to use all the three RDBMS and then talk.

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Abdul Ghani
1 year ago

I still have the same problem and I dont know what mistake I am doing.

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Abdul Ghani
1 year ago

Please provide me with a solution I am really struct with this problem..

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Thiago Barbedo
1 year ago

Ibrahim thank you very much for helping me solve my problem. Very easy and simple solution.

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Thanks!
1 year ago

Thanks! solved my problem.

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steen
11 months ago

Hi!
It solved my problem. thanks!

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Jon
9 months ago

Great Advice!!!! Solved my problem as well!

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Carl
7 months ago

Excellent. I recently installed SQL Server 2008 Express edition and ran into this same problem of getting the "Failed to generate a user instance of SQL Server..." message. I'm barely a novice, and wasted many hours fighting to find a solution to this problem. I'm very thankful your suggestion worked.

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