>That would be:
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>EXEC [ServerName\InstanceName].[msdb].[dbo].sp_start_job @job_name=N'Something'
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>I saw it several times when one server has installed more than 1 SQL Server. IOW, the instance name serves to identify each of them.

Thanks

There is also the link server naming convention as well. I see a lot of syntaxes which do not refer to a server and its instance but rather the link server name.