您可以检查MS SQL Server 2014的服务状态。在Windows 7中，你可以这样做:

搜索并输入“SQL Server 2014配置管理器” 然后点击左侧菜单中的“SQL Server Service” 检查SQL Server实例的服务状态是否为“stopped”或“running” 如果已停止，请将状态改为“运行中”，并登录SQL Server Management Studio 2014

I had the same issue after upgrading my Windows to Windows Pro 10 21H2. I have two SQL instances - 2014 and 2019 and I was not able to connect only to 2019 one. I restarted the computer, restarted all SQL related services. Two of the services were showing errors (SQL Server and SQL Server agent) and I was not able to start them. I could not also start these two services from C:\Windows\SysWOW64\SQLServerManager15.msc In the logs (C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL15.MSSQLSERVER01\MSSQL\Log) I saw these lines:

Initializing the FallBack certificate failed with error code: 15, state: 29, error number: 0.
Error: 17190, Severity: 16, State: 1.
Unable to initialize SSL encryption because a valid certificate could not be found, and it is not possible to create a self-signed certificate.
Error: 17182, Severity: 16, State: 1.
TDSSNIClient initialization failed with error 0x80092004, status code 0x80. Reason: Unable to initialize SSL support. Cannot find object or property. 
Error: 17182, Severity: 16, State: 1.
TDSSNIClient initialization failed with error 0x80092004, status code 0x1. Reason: Initialization failed with an infrastructure error. Check for previous errors. Cannot find object or property. 
Error: 17826, Severity: 18, State: 3.
Could not start the network library because of an internal error in the network library. To determine the cause, review the errors immediately preceding this one in the error log.
Error: 17120, Severity: 16, State: 1.
SQL Server could not spawn FRunCommunicationsManager thread. Check the SQL Server error log and the operating system error log for information about possible related problems.

原来在升级后，服务的“Log On”属性(服务属性上的第二个选项卡)被设置为NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICES。当我将其更改为“本地系统帐户”时，我能够启动服务并连接到MS SQL 2019实例。

这个msdn论坛的帖子帮助我找到了这个。

当我想在另一台PC上运行我的WinForms项目(包括使用SQL Server数据库，并且在我的PC上工作得很好)时，我也犯了同样的错误。问题出在我电脑的Windows防火墙上。我通过添加两条规则来解决这个问题。这是如何允许SQL Server通过Windows防火墙的整个过程:

打开“运行”，输入services.msc 查找用于SQL Server(实例名)和SQL Server Browser的服务。一次一个，右键单击，选择“属性”，复制路径到exe文件 然后打开防火墙。cpl，单击允许应用程序或添加规则，添加之前复制的路径(有一个步骤需要遵循)，选中域和私有，取消选中公共。

这是YouTube的链接，你可以看到这个过程:允许SQL Server通过Windows防火墙

我遇到了同样的问题，问题是我在解决方案(Weband Droid)中有几个项目，即使在包管理器控制台中选择了默认项目，它也使用了Droid项目的连接字符串:

PM> update-database -Verbose
Using StartUp project 'Droid'. <-- DROID
Using NuGet project 'Web'. <-- WEB
Specify the '-Verbose' flag to view the SQL statements being applied to the target database.
<!-- BAD TARGET DATABASE -->
Target database is: 'DefaultConnection' (DataSource: .\SQLEXPRESS, Provider: System.Data.SqlClient, Origin: Convention).
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException (0x80131904): A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 26 - Error Locating Server/Instance Specified)
   [REMOVED TEXT]
ClientConnectionId:00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
Error Number:-1,State:0,Class:20
A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 26 - Error Locating Server/Instance Specified)

在包管理器控制台设置启动项目到Web和默认项目后，我得到了它的工作。

为什么这个错误是如此烦人和嘈杂，只是因为它可以发生在不同的情况。

我已经做了上面所有的方法，但还是很糟糕。所以，在向下浏览之前，确保你和我做了同样的事情。

也许我不能立即解决你的问题，但我可以给你指明一个方向或思路(最后滑下来的那个人)。我已经开始思考我的运行程序的错误发生后，我确保实例名是明确正确的，并设置我的数据库，以允许远程控制以下的方法。之后，我怀疑我的SQL连接代码片段发生了错误。

我的问题解决方案:

检查我的sqlconnection函数

单击以查看其配置

新建连接

选择你的服务器名

对我来说，思考在联系的过程中到底发生了什么是有效的。希望我的想法能引导你改正错误。

按window + R(运行窗口打开)，在运行窗口类型“服务”。msc”和新服务打开找到实例名SQL SERVER在我的情况下，它是SQL SERVER(SQLEXPRESS)，然后启动这个服务，再试一次，它为我工作，希望它也为你工作。