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are you using the correct ODBC drivers?
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Good question xmlmagician. How can I verify?
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Good question xmlmagician. How can I verify?

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my apologies i might have jumped the gun as we have a setup in my organisation where we access an SQL back end with MS access at the front.<br />
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what program do you use to access the date on the SQL server?
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my apologies i might have jumped the gun as we have a setup in my organisation where we access an SQL back end with MS access at the front.

what program do you use to access the date on the SQL server?

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We're connecting using a asset/work order managment software called Cartegraph.
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We're connecting using a asset/work order managment software called Cartegraph.

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i am not familiar with the program but could you try the steps on this link:<br />
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<a href="http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/sql-server/steps-to-troubleshoot-connections-to-your-sql-server/" rel="ugc">http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/sql-server/steps-to-troubleshoot-connections-to-your-sql-server/</a>
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i am not familiar with the program but could you try the steps on this link:

http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/sql-server/steps-to-troubleshoot-connections-to-your-sql-server/ [http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/sql-server/steps-to-troubleshoot-connections-to-your-sql-server/]

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Not much information given in the other answers.
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Not much information given in the other answers.

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Good morning experts. My Windows 7 based PC's will connect perfectly to my SQL 2008 R2 express database. I do however have one legacy XP machine that I also need to connect to it and I am getting this error: &quot;the database could not be opened using this username and password.&quot;
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Good morning experts. My Windows 7 based PC's will connect perfectly to my SQL 2008 R2 express database. I do however have one legacy XP machine that I also need to connect to it and I am getting this error: "the database could not be opened using this username and password."

XP operation system won't connect over the network to SQL Server 2008 RS express

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 is a suite of relational database management system (RDBMS) products providing multi-user database access functionality.Component services include integration (SSIS), reporting (SSRS), analysis (SSAS), data quality, master data, T-SQL and performance tuning. Major improvements include the  Always On technologies and support for unstructured data types.