not necessarily a server but run in a server environment, not to mention servers and networking and network solutions go hand in hand. I was trying to make a point that its a very broad subject, sorry if it wasn't that clear.
Also, SANs have to deal with mostly clustering, which is another way to configure servers.
Of course a SQL server would be a windows server but running SQL and typically it runs nothing else. Our help desk system runs on an SQL database and it gets its own dedicated server running SQL. Maybe I am stretching it I am not sure but I would personally consider that to be a SQL server. I think a lot of network admins use that model for their databases, maybe I am wrong.
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