UCCE 7.X Connection to SQL Express

Hello,
Is the connection to SQL Express external database different than the connection to SQL external database? I'm using UCCE 7.2.6 and I'm not having success accessing a SQL Express external database the sameway I access a SQL external database.
I know in the registry, the SQL login value is \\machine_name\datbase_name=(user,password) where:
machine_name is the name of the SQL server computer
database_name is the name of the database on that SQL server computer
user and password are the logon credentials
So how do I do the above if the machine_name is machine_name\SQLEXPRESS? This puts an extra "\" in the syntax...
Please assist.
Thanks,
MB

First thing I would confirm is that Named Pipes is enabled on the SQL Server instance.
If memory serves, you may also have to create an Alias to a named SQL instance.

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remotely, that is I went to my local development machine and used MS_LOC to try and connect to SQLX_SRV by using
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Cannot connect to SERVER1.EnglishBrains.com\SQLEXPRESS.
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SQL Network Interfaces, error: 26 - Error Locating Server/Instance Specified) (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: -1)
For help, click:
http://www.microsoft.com/products/ee/transform.aspx?ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&EvtSrc=MSSQLServer&EvtID=-1
If you follow the suggested help link, you are told:
The SQL Server client cannot connect to the server. This error could be caused by one of the following reasons:
A specified SQL Server instance name is not valid.
The TCP, or named pipes protocols are not enabled.
The firewall on the server has refused the connection.
The SQL Server Browser service (sqlbrowser) is not started.
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The next thing I tried was to circumvent discovery by the SQL Browser service by using the following syntax to specify the IP address and port directly when specifying the SQL Server name.
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However when I tried to connect from MS_LOC to SQLX_SRV using this same login (WITH SQL Browser service running just for good measure) it does not work?? I get the following error message:
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However, the firewall has been shut down and the server HAS been configured to accept remote connections!
I confirmed that i could indeed Ping to 68.71.134.186 and running NetStat -a |find /i "listening" on the server shows that the server is indeed listening at 68.71.134.186 Port 1433 -- which is why I was able to connect to SQLX_SRV using MS_SRV with
tcp:68.71.134.186,1433 .
IN SUMMARY: Even though I can connect to my SQLEXPRESS instance multiple ways from the server itself, I cannot connect remotely from my development machine!
If anyone can help me figure out why I would be very, very grateful!

My two cents to help you out on c# code example to configure the remote sql server express.
Hope it helps. It works, but you have to be extra carefull to read it all and setup the server configuration and netsh commands; also the port fowarding on the router.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
namespace sqlremoteconnection
class Program
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// 192.168.1.101\SQLEXPRESS
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User ID=[myuser];
Password=[*************]"
Would appreciate someone's wisdom here, I much prefer to use DW than VWD!!
Thanks in advance.
Pete

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