I can't decide if the posted replies here are just trolling the OP or what:  https://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/1998406/Automatically-avoid-error-inserting-into-identity-field
Although I think I'm leaning towards trolling...

Perhaps the biggest potential issue I see to cloud backups is the problem of a mis-configured storage bucket (or whatever term the provider uses.)  We've all read the various stories...

I keep waiting to see Joe C show up in the "Give Up on Natural Primary Keys" topic...
It'd be interesting to see what his take on it is, especially...

How could it, the...

I know I've made similar comments before, but it's almost amazing how good it feels to accomplish something as simple as creating a SSIS package to check if a table...

The certificate used for encrypting connections isn't stored in SQL Server, but in the OS.  If you want to check the certificate, you need to go to SQL Configuration Manager...

You're asking SQL to do something it's not designed to do, behave like a "real" e-mail client (Outlook, Thunderbird, etc.)
With the addresses you've given as examples, the first one,...