I was wrestling with RStudio just yesterday. I made the mistake of installing both the Stand Alone server and the internals on the same machine. Don't do that. (for those...

This article shows how to use an ARM template. That should help.

When you post the execution plans, if you post the execution plans, please post the XML of the plans themselves, preferably the actual plans instead of estimated. Posting a picture...

If you have an MSDN account that also comes with free Azure time that gets renewed monthly.

As far as getting started, my recommendation is to simply dive in....

RStudio is a standalone server for R that you use to manage queries against your database rather than let them go through the built in R servicing architecture that's built...

Doggone it. The formatting is messing up. I've fixed it twice now. I get it right and posting it messes it up.

SELECT COUNT(1),
       vb.Value
FROM Listings AS el
    INNER JOIN Bindings AS vb
        ON vb.fieldid = 7100
           AND el.EntityID = vb.EntityID
WHERE...

Sounds like the backup may have been corrupted. Try restoring it to a different server. If it fails there too, that's the problem. You'll need a new backup. If it...

It's possible that the optimizer will just change it to a join anyway. If you can, post the execution plans, preferably the actual plans.

Could be several things. You have transactions that you're waiting on to complete before the database goes into single user. Alternatively, someone else connected ahead of you and you're waiting...

Plan affecting settings are stored inside the execution plans. However, everything else is through standard events like existing_connection. It lists a lot of stuff, but not the subnet failover setting.