SQL Server- Unable to connect to SQL Express Error: 26-Error Locating Server/Instance Specified
Error Description:
SQL server error 26- Unable to connect to SQL Express Error: 26-Error Locating Server/Instance Specified
Error Details: this sql server error 26 error locating server instance message is often encountered when connection to a SQL Server is tried and don’t know where to start to solve the problem.
We get this sql server error 26 error message only when we are trying to connect to a SQL Server named instance.
Every time we try to make a connection to SQL Server named instance, we will send a SSRP UDP packet to the server machine UDP port 1434. We need this step to know configuration information of the SQL … Read the rest