Can't connect to SQL Server. Please help..!
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Karim El Kadri
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I used SQL last year for sometime just fine, then recently this month tried getting back to it & suddenly it doesn't work. I might have deleted some files by accident so I uninstalled everything SQL related & installed again. Still not connecting to the server. And now even the SQL configuration manager doesn't show the statuses, showing "couldn't create snap-in" error.
When I'm trying to connect to the server it takes a while then says cannot connect to SQL Server due to network-related or instance-specific issue & that the system couldn't find the file specified, even though the reinstallation was 100% succesfully completed & I just used all default options with no customization. I have attached 2 screenshots of the errors showing on each tool.
I would really appreciate help possible as I need this for my job. Thank you so much!
SQL Server | Other
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