Alternately, rather than dropping the tables and recreating them (not a process I generally do in a stored procedure), how about doing a TRUNCATE/DELETE at the start and an INSERT...

One approach would be to modify them and add in a logging table to capture when the stored procedure is called.

Another way would be to start a profiler trace and...

Since you get an authentication error, I would be willing to bet the problem is with the authentication somewhere.

Did a quick google, and found this:

https://www.liquidweb.com/kb/troubleshooting-microsoft-sql-server-error-18456-login-failed-user/

Not specific to Azure, but should...

I think the problem is that a CASE statement cannot return 2 values like that.

The idea of a CASE statement in SQL is that if the lookup value is X...

For me, I don't manage the hardware side of things, so I care less about the hardware and actually have very little say in what hardware I get.  It is...

You say you are using an application - is there a reason you are not just pulling the Excel data in through that rather than using SQL Server as a...

To me it looks like your statistics are out of date.  Your estimates are WAY off from the actuals which usually indicates bad statistics.

I would start there.

Another thing - I...

I agree with both Phil and Michael.  Phil's comment about query store sounds like it is similar to Oracle's AWR.  Or so is my my understanding of query store.

And Michael...

My opinion - I wouldn't reinvent the wheel.  There are a LOT of good monitoring tools out there and I would just use one of those.

The good SQL monitoring tools...

Script debugging is always interesting.  The "best" (ie only) way I know how to do it is to find good breakpoints and run your code up until that breakpoint.  Next,...

I think I can answer both questions, but I would still recommend doing it in a test environment first.

So question 1 - my understanding is that SSRS hasn't had any...

Jeff - your approach is what our devs (myself included) are migrating to (I think).  Basically, the connection string gets stored in a settings file that is read on app...

As a guess - I would say that WinSCP probably has a list of valid fingerprints stored somewhere and when you connect, it checks the fingerprint against the known good...

That makes sense as the fingerprint is the fingerprint of the remote server.

I would recommend looking at some of the example scripts on the WinSCP site.  This one specifically should...

I would check to make sure the input is valid.  Double check the values you are passing into the properties of WinSCP.  For example, check the value of "$config.Configuration.HostName".  is...