Because each index in each object may be on a separate filegroup or partition scheme, drive your query off of sys.indexes, and join the data_space_id column to sys.filegroups.data_space_id.
Here's one...

So, you want numeric values greater than (-100) and less than 100:
CREATE TABLE #testr (id int not null primary key, OrigVarchar varchar(7) NOT NULL);
GO

INSERT...

You give yourself far more flexibility by creating a single Windows Failover Cluster out of all four servers, and installing both FCIs on each of them. Are there any security...

All of this is absolutely terrible advice, and can only make a bad situation worse:

johnwalker10 (12/6/2016)

> Create new...

Redesign the refresh to finish every night, no matter what.

Instead of blast-refreshing all of the rows, do it in smaller, fully-COMMITted batches, walking each source table in some key...

1. Index ID #7 is a non-clustered index. It contains copies of table data (the index keys),...

When you connected to your instance over the VPN with SSMS, did you ensure you are also using Named Pipes for communication, and not TCP/IP, so you're attempting the same...

That will not break the transaction log chain, because you still have every transaction log backup you've taken. The oldest of them reside in one location, the newest reside in...

Describe 'in two backup paths'.

Are you backing up to two locations at the same time using the MIRROR TO keyword of the BACKUP command? If that's what you mean, then...

Fun with recursion 🙂

CREATE TABLE #t (a tinyint NOT NULL, b VARCHAR(10), c VARCHAR(10))

GO

INSERT #t (a, b,c) VALUES (1, 'ab', 'cd')

INSERT #t (a, b,c) VALUES (1, 'ef', 'gh')

INSERT #t (a,...