fully qualified names with named instances

hallo it's unclear to me how to address a named instance using a fully
qualified name (server-name.database-name.owner-name.object-name)
In this syntax, where does the instance name fit?
thanks in advanceRaffaele,
server-name is actually linkedserver-name, which may not actually be the
name of a physical serve. Here is some code from SQL 2005 Books Online
EXEC sp_addlinkedserver
@.server='S1_instance1',
@.srvproduct='',
@.provider='SQLNCLI',
@.datasrc='S1\instance1'
You can see that the instance name is defined in the data source as the
server 'S1' and the instance '\instance1'. The server name of
'S1_instance1' reflects that name, but it could be named
'MyFavoriteLinkedServer' or anything else.
So, then: SELECT * FROM S1_instance1.mydatabase.myowner.MyTable
RLF
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> hallo it's unclear to me how to address a named instance using a fully
> qualified name (server-name.database-name.owner-name.object-name)
> In this syntax, where does the instance name fit?
> thanks in advance|||[Server\Instance].database.owner_or_schema.object
Aaron Bertrand
SQL Server MVP
http://www.sqlblog.com/
http://www.aspfaq.com/5006
"Raffaele" <Raffaele@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> hallo it's unclear to me how to address a named instance using a fully
> qualified name (server-name.database-name.owner-name.object-name)
> In this syntax, where does the instance name fit?
> thanks in advance|||hallo aaron, this was i tried as first but i got this error
"unable to find 'servername\instancename' in sysservers
"Aaron Bertrand [SQL Server MVP]" wrote:

> [Server\Instance].database.owner_or_schema.object
> --
> Aaron Bertrand
> SQL Server MVP
> http://www.sqlblog.com/
> http://www.aspfaq.com/5006
>
>
> "Raffaele" <Raffaele@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>
>|||i already tried linking the instance, getting error 15028 - the server
already exists.
In the test case, both the default and the named instance are on the same
server, which is running MSSQL 2000
"Russell Fields" wrote:

> Raffaele,
> server-name is actually linkedserver-name, which may not actually be the
> name of a physical serve. Here is some code from SQL 2005 Books Online
> EXEC sp_addlinkedserver
> @.server='S1_instance1',
> @.srvproduct='',
> @.provider='SQLNCLI',
> @.datasrc='S1\instance1'
> You can see that the instance name is defined in the data source as the
> server 'S1' and the instance '\instance1'. The server name of
> 'S1_instance1' reflects that name, but it could be named
> 'MyFavoriteLinkedServer' or anything else.
> So, then: SELECT * FROM S1_instance1.mydatabase.myowner.MyTable
> RLF
> "Raffaele" <Raffaele@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>
>|||ok linked server solved! the named instance was already present as "remote
server" since was used for a test replica.
Thanks
"Raffaele" wrote:

> i already tried linking the instance, getting error 15028 - the server
> already exists.|||OK, thanks for the update. - RLF
"Raffaele" <Raffaele@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> ok linked server solved! the named instance was already present as "remote
> server" since was used for a test replica.
> Thanks
> "Raffaele" wrote:
>
>