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Originally Posted by ChrisA

A SQL Server instance has a very specific meaning, which does not refer to a database.

You can have lots of databases in a SQL Server Instance, which has a completely separate set of operating system services associated with it, which can all be stopped and started independently of the other server instances' services.

Just ask them what you've got, and what management tools they either supply, or expect you to be using.

arrghhh! Thanks for correcting me on that

*brain failure mode off*