I have been running SQL Server Express 2014 for a few months without any connection issues.
Today I installed Visual Studio 2010, which I think included a different version of SQL Server Express.
After restarting my system, I noticed that the SQL Server Express 2014 wasn't automatically starting as previous.
Checking the SQL Server Configuration Manager it appears that I now have 2 instances of SQL Server Express:
SQLEXPRESS and SQLSERVEREXPRESS
I'm fairly certain that the 2014 Express version is: SQLSERVEREXPRESS
That being said, can I safely remove or delete the other instance that I really didn't want SQLEXPRESS ?
TIA
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