OSQL question

From a command prompt I try to connect to my newly installed isntance of
MSDE. I use the following:
osql -U sa
and I get:
[SHARED MEMORY] Invalid Connection
[SHARED MEMORY] ConnectionOpen(InvalidInstance())
What am I doing wrong here?
Thanks for the information.
Brad
Did you install a named instance?
Specify the server name on the osql command line.
Also, I hope you didn't setup your MSDE instance with a blank password.
Jim
"Brad" <allcomppc@.sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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> From a command prompt I try to connect to my newly installed isntance of
> MSDE. I use the following:
> osql -U sa
> and I get:
> [SHARED MEMORY] Invalid Connection
> [SHARED MEMORY] ConnectionOpen(InvalidInstance())
> What am I doing wrong here?
> Thanks for the information.
> Brad
>
|||I did install a named instance with also setting the sa password.
I tried using the -S <server> but I get the same message.
Brad
"Jim Young" <thorium48@.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Did you install a named instance?
> Specify the server name on the osql command line.
> Also, I hope you didn't setup your MSDE instance with a blank password.
> Jim
> "Brad" <allcomppc@.sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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>
|||try OSQL.EXE -L
[vbcol=seagreen]
>I did install a named instance with also setting the sa password.
> I tried using the -S <server> but I get the same message.
> "Jim Young" <thorium48@.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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|||Try -S <server>\<Instance name>
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"Brad" <allcomppc@.sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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>I did install a named instance with also setting the sa password.
> I tried using the -S <server> but I get the same message.
> Brad
> "Jim Young" <thorium48@.hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:%23nHX%23igyEHA.1392@.tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>