SQL Server 2008 and CI

[eluser]jonldavis[/eluser]
My application connects to several different MS SQL Servers (both 2005 and 2008, plus 2000 in the past) and I have not had any problems, either developing on my local machine or on a dev/test web server. SQL Server 2008 has pretty robust security settings, but luckily my DBA takes care of that so I don't have to worry about it. I always use the instance name, not the IP.

When you say "severe difficulties" what do you mean? Is SQL Server returning an error message? Is there no response at all?