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Fabiof (fabio.folino@gmail.com) writes:
> I'm connecting to the server with in a legacy asp application just
> fine. The same application has some page in asp but written in
> javascript. When I try to connect to the sql server I get the
> following error.
> 
> Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server error '80004005'
> 
> [DBNETLIB][ConnectionOpen (Connect()).]SQL Server does not exist or
> access denied.
> 
> Here is the connection string. Any help would be appreciated.
> 
>      connection_object = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection");
>      connection_object.CursorLocation = 3;
>      connection_object.ConnectionString = "Provider=SQLOLEDB.
> 1;Password=xxx;Persist Security Info=True;User ID=xxx;Data Source=.
> \SQLEXPRESS;initial catalog=xxxx;"
> 
>      connection_object.Open();
 
So this is the Javascript code? I don't know Javascript, but in some
languages \ is used as an escape character, why you need to double it
if you want to includee as-is. That is, try:

   Data Source=.\\SQLEXRESS


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server connection Fabiof <fabio.folino@gmail.com> - 2011-08-25 18:22 -0700
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