Ok, I've figured out where the registry path comes from now. However, it does exist...

I'm an administrator on this server, in case that's relevant. (I also explicitly...

Yeah, I was just being juvenile rather than commenting on the merits the of various beers 😀.

It's fine to install it on a VM.

😀

And just for completeness, the hotfix over the weekend worked, and all is well again for this database. App 0 : SQL Server 1.

Nah, I just meant we've got to the bottom of it now. (By the way where do you work that they let you restart instances any time 🙂? The...

Have you read the whole thread...?

"I’ve recently heard several people tell me something along the lines of “Well, if my company wants me to learn new technology, they’ll need to tell me what to learn,...

I did too, Sue. All the evangelists put me off them for quite a while. I have seen the light :D.

Sue and Alan, I think we may be getting somewhere! I set up an Extended Events session and ran it for an hour. It captured a ton of primary key...

Thanks, both. I need to dust off my Extended Events knowledge. I did run a server-side trace for a short period, but I couldn't see anything much; that's what's so...

Argh, I replied to this earlier but obviously didn't submit the post!

Thanks, but see the first post in this thread; there have been no growth events for the log file...