Hi all,
My application works ok at opening and reading the sqlserver db.
However, if I open and close the database with "SQL Server Management Studio Express" my program can't open the database until I reboot the pc. It also appears to be happening on another system on which I installed the application.

Have you heard of that problem?
Is there some trick to exiting from Studio that properly releases the Database?

Regards,

TomH & Carolyn

Well I'm not to sure, but if SQL server instance is not running then you can have that problem you just said. Remember you can close your SQL server express as long you can have the instance running..why not try this go to the run command and type msconfig ..then go to services and make sure that you have sqlserver (mssqlserver) services running then restart and you should be ok.

I hope that works for you since it worked for me in the past when I cut off alot of the services form running when windows booted up.