SharePoint Search Service Error – Could not access the Search service configuration database

I got error “Could not access the Search service configuration database” to start the search service after filling in the account and database info while seting up SharePoint (MOSS 2007) in a server farm. After googling, apparently SPSearch(or WSS) doesn’t like its server name to be a FQDN, instead, it prefers NetBIOS. To solve this, you have to change the FQDN name to a NetBIOS name in the SharePoint_Config database. IMPORTANT!! Please do a database backup before proceed!!

Here is the solution I found:

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