Question

It installed automatically with Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate. I didn’t create any users for the server or ANYTHING.

I’m using:

string connectionString = @"Server=.\SQLEXPRESS;Database=SportsStore;Trusted_Connection=yes;";

I get error that authentication failed. So the server is being found, but my credentials are wrong. What would the default login and password be?

Edit: Still not working! 🙁

Here’s my connection string:

string connectionString = @"Server=.\SQLEXPRESS;Database=SportsStore;Integrated Security=SSPI;";

And the error message:

Cannot open database “SportsStore”
requested by the login. The login
failed. Login failed for user
‘ToshibaLaptop\Sergio’.

Answer 1

You probably should not connect using Sql Server Authentication.

Log in as an Administrator on the box, connect using Integrated Windows Authentication, and you should be a system admin.