Another thing to check. If you are running Windows 7, you may have to open VFP as Administrator. Or the program from which you are connecting to SQL Server.
>that's the name of my laptop
>it worked yesterday
>
>
>>To me the server name seems to be "questionable." In my experience the server name usually something like
>>computername\SQL2008 or computername\SQLEXPRESS. Check the name you see in the SSMS.
>>
>>HTH.
>>
>>>yesterday I installed SQL2008 developer
>>>
>>>I could connect with this:
>>>
>>>
>>>strConnectionString = [Driver={SQL Server};Server=OTT-LT1026;Database=kba_sql;Uid=sa;pwd=]
>>>strConnectionString = [Driver={SQL Server};Server=OTT-LT1026;Database=kba_sql;Trusted Connection]
>>>
>>>strSQL = [select * from claims where 1=1 ] && or what ever sql statement you are passing.
>>>csrCursorToBeReturned = [csrNames]
>>>
>>>intHandle = SQLSTRINGCONNECT(strConnectionString)
>>>
>>>intResults = SQLEXEC(intHandle, strSQL, csrCursorToBeReturned)
>>>
>>>>>>
>>>today it times out
>>>with SQL management studio I connect just fine
>>>
>>>what could be wrong?
>>>
>>>Peter
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