How to connect to local instance of SQL Server 2008 Express
Haha, oh boy, I figured it out. Somehow, someway, I did not install the Database Engine when I installed SQL Server 2008. I have no idea how I missed that, but that’s what happened.
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SQL Server Management Studio, how to get execution time down to milliseconds
I was struggling with that until i found this… http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/10/01/sql-server-sql-server-management-studio-and-client-statistics/ Also, if you open the Properties window you may find some magical “Connection elapsed time” that may give you some execution time… Hope it helps…