April 15, 2014 – Knowledgebase

Fix: Could not connect to a SQL Server 2014 instance from within Microsoft Visual Studio 2013.

15 April, 2014 Roel van Lisdonk 0 Comments Uncategorized 13:51

I installed SQL Server 2014, but from within Visual Studio 2013 I could not connect to the newly installed instance. This was caused by the missing Microsoft Visual Studio…

Fix: ‘Could not find the Database Engine startup handle’ during SQL Server 2014 installation on Windows 8.1

15 April, 2014 Roel van Lisdonk 3 Comments Uncategorized 13:18

After the installation of SQL Server 2014 was almost completed on a Windows 8.1 workstation, I got the error: "Could not find the Database Engine startup handle". This was caused by the fact, that…

Day: April 15, 2014

Fix: Could not connect to a SQL Server 2014 instance from within Microsoft Visual Studio 2013.

Fix: ‘Could not find the Database Engine startup handle’ during SQL Server 2014 installation on Windows 8.1