Whether a copy_only backup will be beneficial or not depends largely on your use case.

In my case, I use copy_only backups to refresh my QA databases for the...

I may have to go burn down our local news radio station...
During the lead-in to a story they've been talking about all day, they keep playing "It's beginning to...

Phil,

DDL:  I plan to create the table in question before hand, but included the "check for existence and create" as a "oops" protection.  The audits are getting imported...

Ah the fun of finding a problem that a Dev says is the SQL Server...
And it's not.

Dev cloned an existing query to use a read-only account and...

Wait a second here, Jeff.  Brandie said "trying to teach HIM," not "...her" so wouldn't this instead be:
Your Dad?
:hehe:

So, seeing Lynn's reply to this: https://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/2005945/I-need-to-combine-two-unrelated-queries-to-produce-needed-results I was curious about something.

When you post a reply to an obviously easy question like that, that's a query to give them...