{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pymssql/pymssql/issues/423","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pymssql/pymssql","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pymssql/pymssql/issues/423/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pymssql/pymssql/issues/423/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pymssql/pymssql/issues/423/events","html_url":"https://github.com/pymssql/pymssql/issues/423","id":151506865,"number":423,"title":"Doesn't work with SQL Server Express by instance name","user":{"login":"QuAzI","id":1897605,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1897605?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/QuAzI","html_url":"https://github.com/QuAzI","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/QuAzI/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/QuAzI/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/QuAzI/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/QuAzI/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/QuAzI/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/QuAzI/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/QuAzI/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/QuAzI/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/QuAzI/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2016-04-27T22:30:10Z","updated_at":"2016-04-27T22:30:10Z","closed_at":null,"body":"SQL Server Express installed and MS SQL Management Studio connects fine.\r\nConnection string looks like\r\n`Server=myServerName\\myInstanceName;Database=myDataBase;User Id=myUsername; Password=myPassword;`\r\n\r\n```\r\nimport pymssql\r\n\r\ndbConnection = pymssql.connect(server='myServerName\\myInstanceName', user='myUsername', password='myPassword', database='myDataBase')\r\n```\r\nfailed with\r\n>    File \"pymssql.pyx\", line 641, in pymssql.connect (pymssql.c:10788)\r\n> pymssql.OperationalError: (20009, b'DB-Lib error message 20009, severity 9:\\nUna\r\n> ble to connect: Adaptive Server is unavailable or does not exist (myServerName\\\\myInstanceName)\\n')\r\n"}}