6. Click New Query in SQL Server Management Studio and type select @@servername to verify everything is correct and you have successfully changed the sql server name.

I also have the "Force Encryption" option for the SQL Server 2005 Network Connections set to "No".<BR><BR>This is as default an install on Windows XP Professional as possible.

Inside the Session What: Get Started Using .NET Aspire with SQL Server & Azure SQL Database When: March 12, 2025, 4 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. Who: Jerry Nixon, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft, and Davide Mauri ...

One thing that was not immediately evident in the noise about the recent launch of Microsoft's SQL Server 2005 was the fact that the next-gen database isn't generally available yet.