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ostinoh
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Posted - 2010-09-02 : 16:01:39

Hello Everyone -

I'm looking for some ideas or exmaples of standardized naming conventions for SQL Server Instances.

We are in the process of coming up with a process to be not be pigeon holed into the instance name being the same of the application and losing the abilty to have different databases under one instance.

For example: Servername\Moss_App_Prod

Does anyone else do this? Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
David

tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess

38200 Posts

Posted - 2010-09-02 : 16:04:56

We use one letter of the alphabet for each, starting at A. We figure the shorter the name, the easier it is to remember. Plus less typing!

\A
\B
\C
...

We do not mix production with other non-prod systems, so we have no need to specify the type in the instance name. We do, however, specify the type in the server name.

Tara Kizer
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tkizer
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38200 Posts

Posted - 2010-09-02 : 16:05:16

So this means our instance names are not unique across servers, but that doesn't matter to use as the servers are unique.

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