How is the SSIS package run? If it's run from within SQL Server, meaning it gets deployed to the instance (and this is not the way that most people I...

I agree with Steve's and Jeff's advice, but if this is HIPAA applicable PHI data, I'd stop providing that information right now. If you knowingly supply PHI data to unauthorized...

Glad to hear the book was useful. Thank you!

In that case, hit the stairways series, especially the more advanced topics. They'll give you lots to work on. Or,...

Yep. You've got it.

Yeah, that's absolutely a violation of the GDPR, if you have EU citizens data in that. It's also a violation of HIPAA if there is private health information in it....

Yeah, that works. It's hard to convince people that behavior is behavior is behavior. It's down to the system settings and the statistics. In fact, I'd worry more about inconsistency...

Yep. Effectively you're dropping and recreating the table, so everything has to go.

The only suggestion I have is to make sure you're on the latest version of SSMS. They're updated completely independently from SQL Server now, so you need to patch them...