With our system, we had turned on successful login logging on one of our systems and had a HUGE performance hit to the database.  The problem was caused by how...

Without seeing an execution plan or ddl, I the below are just guesses.

Depending on the number of rows returned by your nested select, you may get better performance by changing...

Have you tried opening the master key by password and adding encryption by service master key?

GitHub.

GitHub has a LOT of open source projects that are looking for more developers.  It is generally unpaid work and the code owner could change the license and make it...

Not sure if it is just me or not, but I don't see what the data is supposed to look like...

BUT based on what you posted, I am thinking that if...

This to me looks like a homework type assignment or possibly an interview question, but I'll try to help without giving the answer away.

So my first step would be to...

My opinion - this would be better suited on a C++ forum, or even a general coding forum, and not on a SQL Server specific forum... but I can try...

I would look at the logs on your db2 server.  The error is being thrown on that server, so that should tell you what is wrong.  Could be something like...

My opinion, this type of question is usually better asked on web-based development forums.  The database has no idea what field is selected by default at the application side based...

I am not sure if that is 1 error or 2, but I would try to solve the first error first:

The component metadata for "Power Query Source, clsid {7CDF593F-DE06-4ABD-B356-7976EF7AC8E0}" could...

I am not 100% sure on what you are trying to do, but I have a guess.  I think what you are going to want to do is for that...

I would say give it a shot and see what happens.

Clone your system to a test/dev box and do some performance testing after cloning to get some baseline numbers. ...

Personally, I'm not a huge fan of that "fix". My approach would be to change the SQL Server Service and SQL Agent Service to run as an AD account...

I agree with Ant-Green - this sounds like a homework question. And it is very vague and I am a bit confused what you mean by your first statement...

I have never heard of or used flexbox, but a quick google makes it look like it is a CSS tool?

If my findings are correct, then I think that this...