OK, unrelated to the discussion about who is or isn't "new to SQL," here's a question for you...
Given your druthers, would you rather have a dedicated lab PC separate...

OK, the weather is getting really weird around here...
A couple days ago, needed at least a windbreaker going outside.
Yesterday, open windows on the car for the drive home,...

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...