Problem in connection to sqlexpress witn ASP.nET

hi all

When I use asp.net 2.1 to connect sql 2005 express locally I got error message to say

An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server.
When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact
that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections.
(provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 25 - Connection string is not valid)

I use following connection string

ConnectToDb.ConnectionString = "Data Source=servername;InitialCatalog=PushToMail;Integrated Security=true";

for more information : when I open SQLEXPRESS this oblige me to inter

servername : servername\sqlexpress

authentification: windowsauthentification

and when i try this connection

ConnectToDb.ConnectionString = "Data Source=servername\sqlexpress;InitialCatalog=PushToMail;Integrated

Security=true";

l got this erreur "inorganised sequence space"

next time u install sql 2005 ,use both authentication ,windows and sql.

or try to connect sql using your VS 2005 ,if u have.

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Read this thread,

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=327846&SiteID=1

It has answer that explains how to enable remote connections.

Problem dropping replication support

I am working on establishing a merge replication process between SQL Server 2005 and SQL Mobile 2005. I started with a new SQL Server 2005 instance and went through the Sample for SQL Mobile merge replication. So far so good.

Today, I tried to drop all support for replication on my current SQL 2005 test instance, so that I can start from a fresh instance and do another. I used Management Studio to drop all publisher and distribution settings and had several errors occur, where some roles were not allowed to be dropped because they had membership in them.

I dropped all the users that I added to the SQL logins and tried again.

Now I am trying to run the following script:

use AdventureWorks
exec sp_replicationdboption @.dbname = N'AdventureWorks', @.optname = N'merge publish', @.value = N'false', @.ignore_distributor = 'true'

-- Dropping the distribution publishers
exec sp_dropdistpublisher @.publisher = N'XP-MIKED-LAPTOP'
GO

-- Dropping the distribution databases
use master
exec sp_dropdistributiondb @.database = N'distribution'
GO

/****** Uninstalling the server XP-MIKED-LAPTOP as a Distributor. Script Date: 1/14/2006 2:16:29 PM ******/

use master
exec sp_dropdistributor @.no_checks = 1, @.ignore_distributor = 1
GO

The error I am getting from the first batch (sp_replicationdboption) is this:

Msg 208, Level 16, State 1, Procedure sp_MSmergepublishdb, Line 103
Invalid object name 'dbo.sysmergesubscriptions'.

To me it looks like all the publication objects have been already removed from AdventureWorks, but in sysdatabases, the category column still says 4 (merge publication). Since I can't just do this anymore:

UPDATE MASTER.DBO.SYSDATABASES
set category = 0
where dbid=8

I just don't know what I can do at this point. I can't even create a new publication in AdventureWorks because it thinks there is a sysmergepublications table in there and fails when there isn't.

try sp_removedbreplication.

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Greg Yvkoff wrote:

try sp_removedbreplication.

Yes, that was exactly it. I got to the end of the KB article 324401 and found that stored proc. It worked like a charm.