Shifting gears a bit, I probably wouldn't store the original data in such a horizontal format because you'd need to add columns to the table to add other event points. ...

Heh... glad to see this article.  I'd done some contract work for different companies where they contracted a "provider" for both hardware, SQL Server, and things like backups.   None of...

Hopefully you didn't just publish a real password. 😉

I'll also state that you'll really, really end up hating yourself or someone will end up hating you if you use the format of MMM-yyyy for this because it's flat...

Get your infrastructure folks to automate SAN snapshots for you.  They're nearly instantaneous.