Many times we find issues when connecting to the SQL Server. It gives us the message “SQL Server is not able to connect to local host” as per the given below screen.
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To fix this issue, the step is simple.
Go to Start->Run->Services.msc.
Once the Services are open, select SQL Server and start it, as per the given screenshot, given below:
Once you do it, SQL server will be up and running again.
SQL Server sometimes stops because of some problem. These steps help to make it up. Thanks for reading.