From what little I am able to see it seems like there are a LOT of companies still running SQL 2008R2.

Interesting topic.  I ended up getting my Mom a new Win10 PC to replace her Win7 PC just last week.  She didn't need it at all, however, the end of...

Yes, it is a coming quickly.  I haven't even installed a SQL Server 2017 and 2019 is almost here.

The question becomes what Windows patch were they applying that was running a SQL Server upgrade? A SQL Server security patch in a Cumulative Update?....

As far as I know...

I have this same issue come up from time to time.  The only thing I see is that the CPUs may not be near 100% but there is a LOT...

Basically the ID that was the database owner has been dropped from SQL Server.

Here is a great reference for SQL Server builds.

http://sqlserverbuilds.blogspot.com/

Yes...

The ID that owns and runs these jobs that have run for years successfully are now failing after the service ID password change.  If I restart the SQL Server services...

When I get a new server that is one of the first things I change, the power plan.  It is crazy to think power consumption is a worry when you...

... and I haven't even installed a single SQL Server 2017 version yet.