Vista - reboot each day to connect to a SQL Express Database

here's a weird one...

I leave my computer on all night (usually I'm at it working, of course!)
Anyway, every day the FIRST time I try and connect to a local SQL Experss
database sitting in my App_Data folder, and it cannot connect. Nothing seems
to fix it except a complete reboot of my machine. Once I do that, I'm good
for another 24 hours.

Here is the error message:

An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When
connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that
under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections.
(provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 26 - Error Locating Server/Instance
Specified)"

Here is the stack trace:

at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnection.OnError(SqlException
exception, Boolean breakConnection) at
System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.ThrowExceptionAndWarning(TdsParserStateObject
stateObj) at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.Connect(ServerInfo
serverInfo, SqlInternalConnectionTds connHandler, Boolean
ignoreSniOpenTimeout, Int64 timerExpire, Boolean encrypt, Boolean
trustServerCert, Boolean integratedSecurity, SqlConnection owningObject)
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnectionTds.AttemptOneLogin(ServerInfo
serverInfo, String newPassword, Boolean ignoreSniOpenTimeout, Int64
timerExpire, SqlConnection owningObject) at
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnectionTds.LoginNoFailover(String host,
String newPassword, Boolean redirectedUserInstance, SqlConnection
owningObject, SqlConnectionString connectionOptions, Int64 timerStart) at
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnectionTds.OpenLoginEnlist(SqlConnection
owningObject, SqlConnectionString connectionOptions, String newPassword,
Boolean redirectedUserInstance) at
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnectionTds..ctor(DbConnectionPoolIdentity
identity, SqlConnectionString connectionOptions, Object providerInfo, String
newPassword, SqlConnection owningObject, Boolean redirectedUserInstance)
at
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnectionFactory.CreateConnection(DbConnectionOptions
options, Object poolGroupProviderInfo, DbConnectionPool pool, DbConnection
owningConnection) at
System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionFactory.CreatePooledConnection(DbConnection
owningConnection, DbConnectionPool pool, DbConnectionOptions options) at
System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionPool.CreateObject(DbConnection
owningObject) at
System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionPool.UserCreateRequest(DbConnection
owningObject) at
System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionPool.GetConnection(DbConnection
owningObject) at
System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionFactory.GetConnection(DbConnection
owningConnection) at
System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionClosed.OpenConnection(DbConnection
outerConnection, DbConnectionFactory connectionFactory) at
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.Open() ....

Nothing in the code changes, of course, it is the same connection string I
use after the reboot.

The only thing i can think of is a backup runs at night, and maybe it hangs
onto the file or something??

Anyone ever seen anything like this?
-zorpie

before you try to connect, have you checked to see if the sqlservice is
actually running on the machine.

Im under teh assumption yours "stops", and on reboot it is set to "startup".

Miro

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