Sunday, 15 September 2013

Change name of SQL Server's Service

Change name of SQL Server's Service

I already have SQLServerPro 2008. I just installed SQL Server 2008 R2 with
instance name sqlserverr2. Now, I want to change the name of the service
also. I could change name of the server.
select @@SERVICENAME, @@SERVERNAME
It outputs -
SQLEXPRESSR2, HOME\SQLEXPRESS
Means service name is not changed. Only servername changed. Even I cannot
use .\sqlexpress to connect from Managment Studio.

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