After doing a fresh installation of SQL2014 Express on a Windows 2012R2 standard server i got an error while connecting to the server instance. After looking in the eventlog i found these messages stating that the SQL instance service terminated (The SQL server (SQLEXPRESS) service terminated with the following service -specific eror: %%945) System log: Application log: The errors in the application log seem odd because the server had no e drive! During testing i found out that could only start the instance in single user mode and when i tried connecting through SQL management tools the service would crash. So I tried…
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