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In my freshly installed sql server expressI can not administrate the server!
How can I get admin of my sql server express instance?
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You post is not very clear.
During SQL Server installation you had to define one or more Windows accounts as admin; so use one of them to logon.
And if you installed it in "Mixed mode", then you had to define a password for the SysAdmin account "sa"; then use that one.
Hi @Robert Lalyko ,
The information in your post is not very clear. You can't connect to the server or you don't have the administrator rights?
Best regards,
Lucy Chen
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