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Also make sure that you allow remote connections. By default SQL Express only allows local connections so you have to change it if you want remote access.<br />
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exec sp_configure 'remote access', 1<br />
reconfigure
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Also make sure that you allow remote connections. By default SQL Express only allows local connections so you have to change it if you want remote access.

exec sp_configure 'remote access', 1
reconfigure

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Also check if SQL Browser service is up and running.
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Also check if SQL Browser service is up and running.

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SQL Express 2014 connection error<br />
On the SQL server I can login using the credential ok. I'm on the VMware Horizon server where I get the below error message:<br />
An error occurred while attempting to configure the database. Double check the database parameters and ensure that the database is not down, restarting, or otherwise unavailable.<br />
I have disabled the windows firewall.<br />
What else can I check?
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SQL Express 2014 connection error
On the SQL server I can login using the credential ok. I'm on the VMware Horizon server where I get the below error message:
An error occurred while attempting to configure the database. Double check the database parameters and ensure that the database is not down, restarting, or otherwise unavailable.
I have disabled the windows firewall.
What else can I check?

SQL Connection

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VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

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