I spent 4 hours trying to get Coldfusion 9 to make a datasource that connects to SQL Server Express 2008. It kept erroring out. It looks like many people run into similar issues.
A few bloggers and forum posters said to try the following:
A few bloggers and forum posters said to try the following:
- enable TCP connections for your sql agent
- Make sure SQL Server is running
- make sure sql authentication is turned on
- update to the latest JDBC driver
- Turn off your firewall
Yeah, I tried those things. They didn't fix a thing. Here's what does work:
- DON'T USE SQL SERVER EXPRESS
- Get a real copy of SQL Server
- Done
Nothing wrong with SQL Server Express. I've used it on other projects. The real problem is that Coldfusion and Microsoft products don't normally work well with each other.