How to start SQL Server?

2 years ago
Benjamin Taylor
1 minute

To start SQL Server, you can follow these steps:

  1. Open the “Start” menu, locate and click on “SQL Server Configuration Manager”.
  2. In the Configuration Manager, expand the “SQL Server Services” node.
  3. Locate the SQL Server instance you want to start. By default, the SQL Server instance name is “SQL Server (instance name)”.
  4. Right-click on the instance and choose the “Start” option.
  5. Wait for a while until SQL Server starts successfully. You can check in the status column to see if it displays “Running.”

Additionally, if you are using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), you can also start SQL Server by following these steps:

  1. Open SQL Server Management Studio.
  2. In the connection dialog box, enter the server name and authentication credentials for the SQL Server instance.
  3. Click on the “Connect” button, SSMS will attempt to connect to the SQL Server instance.
  4. If the connection is successful, you will see the Object Explorer window of the SQL Server instance, indicating that SQL Server has started successfully.

Please note that starting SQL Server may take some time, depending on your computer’s performance and the configuration of your SQL Server instance.

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