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  • May 13, 2013 at 3:14 pm

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    raghusg (5/13/2013)

    Hi,

    We have two different Windows 2008 R2 servers (Server1 and Server2) on the same domain. The questions I have are:

    1) Can I have the same named instance on both the servers (Server1\Instance1, Server2\Instance2)?

    2) Will this cause any problems for operations.

    Thanks in advance for the replies.

    Raghuveer S

    Your example doesn't have the same instance names? typo?

    a classic example in my shop is everyones developer machines have 2008 and 2012 both as instances.

    so my machine, DEV223, has instances named DEV223\SQL2008 and DEV223\SQL2012.

    The guy in the next cube has a machine named DEV241, and he has isntances named DEV241\SQL2008 and DEV241\SQL2012

    it's the combination of machine name + instance name that is required to be unique across the network, not just the isntance name.

    Does that help?

    Lowell

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