It looks to me like this is the Windows service name of a named SQL 2000
instance. If your server is named MyServer, you would connect to this named
instance using the name ''MyServer\microsoftsamdm'.

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Hope this helps.

Dan Guzman
SQL Server MVP

"Waxabi X" <waxabi@excite.com> wrote in message
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> Does anyone know what the following instance name means? I know the
> two servers this is running on is a NAS server running Dell
> PowerVault. I am having to do some maintenance on a network I am
> unfamiliar with and am just trying to figure a few things out and can
> find no docs on this.
>
> Thanks