When creating automation scripts to discover, add, update or remove records from a remote SQL database, you need to make sure your script can successfully connect to the database.

Use custom-built .NET Framework 4.0 classes to connect an ASP.NET Web application to a SQL Server 2012 database.

I'm trying to start/stop MS SQL Service on various DB servers (locally) but we don't always know the name of the instance (Always only 1 SQL Server running on a single server).