Cannot open database "testDB" requested by the login. The login failed.

I have created a new database within SQLServer Express 2005 and have an ASP page in IIS. Any time i attempt to access the database I get the following error:

[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Cannot open database "testDB" requested by the login. The login failed.

The ODBC connection that I have created works fine if connecting to the same table (literally three sample fields with two records) in an Access database.

The database connection that I am using is:

Set DatabaseConnection = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
DatabaseConnection.Open "DSN=testDB;UID=EINSTEIN\Administrator&pwd=password;DATABASE=testDB;APP=ASP Script"
Set rs = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.recordset")
SQLString = "SELECT * FROM testTable"
rs.Open SQLString, DatabaseConnection
if NOT rs.EOF then
Response.Write(rs("testField1") & " - " & rs("testField2"))
end if
rs.Close
DatabaseConnection.Close
Set DatabaseConnection = Nothing

EINSTEIN is the name of the server, rs = Recordset. I have tried changing to just Administrator instead of machinename\Administrator with no success. I have got SQL Server Management Studio Express CTP, and can log in fine to SQL Server using EINSTEIN\Administrator.

Please can anyone help!

Suggesting that you are going the DSN-less way (Connectionstrings can be found here www.connectionstrings.com) the database which is requested is not available for this user. You cannot provide a Windows User name if you want to use trusted authentication (it some time ago, that I used DSN, but I guess this is just possible for passing over SQL Server authentication. Try using a DSN-less connection with specifying a database that is accessible for the user.

See if that works, Jens Suessmeyer.

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It looks like your connection string may be a little incorrect, the current string is:

"DSN=testDB;UID=EINSTEIN\Administrator&pwd=password;DATABASE=testDB;APP=ASP Script"

It should be

"DSN=testDB;UID=EINSTEIN\Administrator;pwd=password;DATABASE=testDB;APP=ASP Script"

No Ampersand between Administrator&pwd, instead it should be a semi-colon

See if that works