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Having trouble starting SQL service with dot net ( dotnet / .net) SDK ?
After installing SQL MSDE with VisualStudio .NET and restarting the computer, I had trouble starting the SQL service agent after trying ‘localhost’ and ‘127.0.0.1′ since it kept saying that the instance name was not valid. I finally figured out that it was because I had specified an instance name - ‘NETSDK’. So, to start the service I needed to specify ‘127.0.0.1\NetSDK’.
This shows the command line arguments to use to install MSDE:
Setup.exe /qb+ INSTANCENAME=NetSDK DISABLENETWORKPROTOCOLS=1 SAPWD=
http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/downloads/sdkmsde/default.aspx
