"After installing this update, apps that use ODBC connections through Microsoft ODBC SQL Server Driver (sqlsrv32.dll) to access databases might not connect," Microsoft explains.

C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10_50.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA Unlike yours, this particular one is located here. I’d double check but if you’re ridiculously confident don’t bother.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\Setup If you need to know where the actual SQL engine is located, look at the tag SQLPath, which is also in this same node.

Figure 3. Your SQL Database Servers. Next, you'll need to create the rule to allow one or a block of IP addresses. If you'd like just to let the public IP address you are coming from (if the computer ...

If you're able to telnet to port 1433, try opening the Microsoft Query Analyzer. Use the login combination you tried above to verify that a user name and password combination exists for your SQL ...

This is when you need to focus on automation tools like Windows PowerShell. To query any SQL database from PowerShell, you need to have the SQLPS module installed along with a few supporting packages.