I can no longer boot up in osx after installing windows 7 with bootcamp

After installing windows 7 with boot camp I am no longer able to access my osx side, I do not receive an option when holding alt when turning on my MacBook

What options do you get? If you don't get any options then you may not be pressing and holding the option key long enough or you are pressing it too early or too late.

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Press Option at restart, or select the Mac OS X system from the Startup Disk control panel in Windows or the Startup Disk pane of System Preferences in Mac OS X.
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Can't boot back into OSX after installing windows 8.1

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Hello guys.
I installed windows on a partition of 100gb and I restarted the iMac so I can log on to Mac osx.
I hold down the option key after I hear the sound but only the windows disk appears there.
I tried the DVD that came with my Mac by holding down the "c" key but nothing happened. I was holding it down for 2-3 minutes.
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The Macbook will not allow you to startup with your Install DVD while you have Open Firmware password enabled. Disable that first, then try again....
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106482
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I just got a new macbook pro and i have never used boot camp. well i loaded windows 7 using boot camp and now I dont know how to get back to osX. Can anyone help?

lathscope,
do you notice a little triangle on the bottom right corner of your screen - near the clock (in Windows)? If you do so, click on it. Shoud appear an option to restart the computer in Mac OS.
Other option is to go to the Control Panel. There is a icon for Bootcamp there.
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I had a (default) SQL Server 2008 R2 RS instance running just fine until I installed a SQL Server 2012 instance side by side.
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Hi all,
I had a (default) SQL Server 2008 R2 RS instance running just fine until I installed a SQL Server 2012 instance side by side.
Now, the original reporting service service still runs, as in the Windows service is still running and I can access the web based Report Manager, but I can no longer access it via the Reporting Services Configuration Manager (2008). I keep getting the message
"No report servers were found" when trying to connect.
The 2012 version of Reporting Services Configuration Manager is able to find the new 2012 instance though.
I've found an article (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960374/en-us) that handles this, but I don't have a dedicated server available to test this on, so I'd like some more info first, if possible.
The article handles SQL Server 2008 vs SQL Server 2005, so not sure if it applies to my case (in other articles I read that the WMI namespaces have changed between 2005 and 2008, but nothing is said about 2012).
It says to update the ReportingService.mof file by replacing RS_[instance_name] by [instance_name], but the .mof file that handles the 2012 instance also contains the RS_[instance_name] text and seems to run just fine
Any other suggestions or extra details about the above would be greatly appreciated!
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Can someone please help??
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On startup I get the "chime" but the system goes straight into Windows. (sometimes).
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None of these inputs are being recognised so I am stuck.
Windows itself is not working well either, as most times it will stay stuck on the Windows logo and not progress any further.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4904

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I have tried to install Windows 7 several times and so far no success.
Everything goes fine until I complete Win7 installation.
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Im in my Mac and I want to go back to my windows but dont know too.

Restart with the Option key held down, or use the Startup Disk pane of System Preferences, or the Startup Disk control panel in Windows.
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Title sums it up.
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