Two days ago, I was participating TechEd India 2011 and I had great time presenting on various subjects. My computer fortunately behaved very well and I consider myself lucky for it. However, very next day today, when I went to office and turned on the machine, it did not start SQL Server. I was bit confused and very quickly checked SQL Server Services. I noticed that services were OFF. I tried to turn on the services but it keep on giving me following error.
Error:
The request failed or the service did not respond in timely fashion. Consult the event log or other applicable error logs for details.
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