For the 1,000,000th time: you have servers (VMs, physical) that run instances of SQL Server. SQL is not a product. It's a language. You DO NOT HAVE SQL SERVERS FFS

@SQLHA Well, "servers upon which I have installed Microsoft sql server" is a bit much.

@IrishSQL You need to add a few thus/they/thines in there in the Olde English ;) I'm old but not THAT old. Maybe.

@IrishSQL @SQLHA I just call it 'The server you shall not have admin rights to.. No, I'm serious. For the last time you do NOT "need" it, so piss off!' Flows off the tongue nicely I think. For shorthand it's just called 'No, don't ask'