DELLSRV is my server name, I named it this way, no mistery here, it's DELL
server.

"Erland Sommarskog" <esquel@sommarskog.se> wrote in message
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> df (df@df.com) writes:
> > I have fixed the problem. I suspect that when I installed service packs,
> > it created the second instance, since I did not do it explicitly. I shut
> > it down, and registered the original one.
>
> I don't know which of the instances was the unexpected one, but it
> could be an MSDE instance that slipped in with some 3rd party software.
> DELLSRV hints a certain vendor.
>
>
> --
> Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se
>
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