You can use SQL to create, modify, search, and display database information. Windows 7 includes an ODBC manager that lets you connect from your desktop to a SQL server.

For this article, we're only going to be demonstrating SQL authentication. If your database is set up with Windows authentication, the code we're about to cover will not work. We'll first need to ...

Let us see how to fix the issue. Windows could not start the SQL Server (<DB-NAME>) on Local Computer. For more information, review the System Event Log.