Take the 2-minute tour ×  I had the following error message in
Visual Studio when I am trying to connect to SQL Server:  I got
this message   This occurred when I was trying to setup SQL
Management studio, but as always I face problems setting it up.
Now I can't use either of them.  How do I fix this up?
share|improve this question Hm. Bad Pizza when programming. See,
I program and I had a pizza that tasted terribly. Why? Same with
your thing - the error CLEARLY points to "visual studio has ZERO
relevance". Please spend more than 1 second thinking of a
subject line. –  TomTom Jan 6 at 10:34 add comment  2 Answers
Usually that means you either typed the server name incorrectly,
or that the server does not have the SQL Server service running.
Check those two things.  share|improve this answer Or that the
firewall blocks such connections. –  TomTom Jan 6 at 10:33 add
comment  This is a quite common issue. Take a look at existing
answers on Stack Overflow, for example, How do I fix the error
'Named Pipes Provid