Not really. While maybe not the best analogy, it would be similar to calling Microsoft Word Microsoft RTF. Microsoft Word can save as an RTF file but it doesn't make sense to call Microsoft Word Microsoft RTF. As someone else mentioned, calling it SQL Server might be reasonable as most people will probably know what you mean as I don't think any other database company's database engine is called 'xx SQL Server', eg. Oracle SQL Server.

Plus there is Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio so you might confuse people as to what product you're referring to if you just say Microsoft SQL.

Not really. While maybe not the best analogy, it would be similar to calling Microsoft Word Microsoft RTF. Microsoft Word can save as an RTF file but it doesn't make sense to call Microsoft Word Microsoft RTF. As someone else mentioned, calling it SQL Server might be reasonable as most people will probably know what you mean as I don't think any other database company's database engines is called 'xx SQL Server', eg. Oracle SQL Server.

Plus there is Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio so you might confuse people as to what product you're referring to if you just say Microsoft SQL.

Not really. While maybe not the best analogy, it would be similar to calling Microsoft Word Microsoft RTF. Microsoft Word can save as an RTF file but it doesn't make sense to call Microsoft Word Microsoft RTF. As someone else mentioned, calling it SQL Server might be reasonable as most people will probably know what you mean as I don't think any other database company's database engines is called 'xx SQL Server', eg. Oracle SQL Server.