As a beginner I added several databases to my server in sqlexpress. These are now resident in connect to server in ssms. However I used the normal delete function in windows to delete some of the databases, without realising what would happen. As a result the server ./sqlexpress retains references to the deleted databases showing up in ssms connect to server. How do I get rid of those references please. I am using vs2010 and vs 2012 express.
I have tried connecting to the databases using ssms but since the databases don't exist the connection fails. There's also a question of passwords since i'm using sql asuthentication and these databases were used over a year ago. Quite simply I don't know what to try and a search on re-initialization on the web only comes up with install, or re-install and seems to center around 2005 versions of vs