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Rick Byham wrote this article in January 2011. Here's Rick:

Check out the Comments on Rick's article:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/2102.how-to-troubleshoot-connecting-to-the-sql-server-database-engine.aspx#comments

That's really what I want to focus on.

The comments are an excellent example of encouragements that are specific and not very vague:

Great comments! These really show how by giving specifics we can tell each other qualitatively what works and what doesn't work.

Thanks!

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