SQL Express setup - can't even get past the setup!

You can't use Windows authentication for this connection.

You need to ensure that you have installed SQL Server Express in mixed mode with TCP/IP connections enabled.

By default SQL Express doesn't allow remote connections, so if you are not using it on a localhost you should search Google for some articles on enabling remote connections for SQL Express.

With SQL Server Express running as a localhost you need to enter the following:-

    strSQLServerName = "localhost\SQLEXPRESS"
 
For the rest of the settings you need top have created a blank database on SQL Server Express and then also create a user giving that user DBO rights (Database Owner) on the database you have just created.

You then need to fill in your other details in your database connections file giving the database name, username, and password you have just created on the SQL Server.

Dank this topic is about SQL Express, your post appears to be about mySQL, a completly different topic. If this is the case please start a new topic.