I know nothing about databases. I am not a database guy. Databases are as foreign to me as wins are for the Colorado Rockies. That being said, here we go...<BR><BR>We have a computer running Microsoft ...

I'm going to have to build an app in PHP which does this, but before I do that I'd like to connect to it with a client tool just to see how things are structured and such. I'm afraid I don't know much ...

You will fail to connect to your database if the SQL Server service is not running. If you try running the SQL Server service from the Services.msc app, you will ...