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Can't Access MSSQLSVR (with SQLEXPRESS installed)

Asked by kmoloney in MS SQL Server

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Something strange is going on.  I had SQL Server (I believe 2005) installed on my machine (I say "I believe" because I installed over previous versions.  See http://www.experts-exchange.com/Databases/Microsoft_SQL_Server/Q_22070953.html for more info).  Usually when I opened up Microsoft SQL Studio 2005 and selected KMOLONEY-WS as the workstation name, it returned the database files in C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\Data\.  I installed SQL Server Express because I was having problems using SQL Server with the "Manage Website" feature of VB2005 for an ASP.NET Web Site.  Someone told me I had to install SQL Server Express to use this feature...so I did, and it worked fine.

Now, in SQL Studio 2005, when I logged in, two servers were listed.  KMOLONEY-WS, and KMOLONEY-WS\SQLEXPRESS.  Bringing up KMOLONEY-WS still brought up the database files in C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\Data\, and KMOLONEY-WS\SQLEXPRESS brought up just standard system databases.  I created several new databases in KMOLONEY-WS\SQLEXPRESS, and logging into the KMOLONEY-WS\SQLEXPRESS brought up these new databases (stored in C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.3\Data\).

Somehow, sometime, for some reason, things changed:  bringing up either KMOLONEY-WS or KMOLONEY-WS\SQLEXPRESS brings up just the new (SQLEXPRESS) databases in C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.3\Data\).  I can see the MDF and LDF files for the older databases in C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL ... I just can't figure out how to bring them up in SQL Server Management Studio (or OSQL, or anything).  All my previous apps built on these databases fail, with the message:

Cannot open database "CupboardSQL" requested by the login. The login failed.
Login failed for user 'TTI\kmoloney'.

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