Is on-premise. Tried the Attunity Connectors but can't find how to use expressions (SQL command from variable) for incremental updates.

Have a look at the ExtendedEventsWorkloadListener of  WorkloadTools

The tool is designed to replay or analyse a workload from system A to system B using Extended Events.

It has a...

Doesn't seem to make a difference. I'll have to try it in a proper testing environment

Oracle driver oddities: create table as select * @from_dblink 1 minute. SSIS select * + rowcount: 80 minutes with Oracle Oledb 🙁

A couple of years ago you needed to install VMWare guest tools to install better drivers for virtualization. Otherwise it would fall back to the much slower cpu-virtualization

Don't know if...

I don't have experience with it, but it seems you can move resources between subscriptions.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/resource-group-move-resources

Service account of instance has access to the share?

I would rather see the minimum limits gone (minimum 4 core licenses per virtual machine).

When permitted by the vendor, we upgrade test to the latest available. The next version is probably there when testing is over in some scenario's

Do you have the full ODAC installed or the xcopy only?

I always install the 64-bit odac first and later on the 32-bit (for visual studio) in a different home

1. 64-bit...

If you have a support contract you can send the dump to MS. Perhaps you hit an unknow bug.

Try to get a testbest and verify your backup/restores.

As it had no patching, you should patch it to the latest cumulative pack.

You should surely be concerned.

Is the instance up to date (CU 14?)

You could join a date-table with your information.
pseudocode:

select mydate,sum(rate) total
from datetable
inner join ratetable
on  datetable.datekey>=ratetable.startdate
and  dataetable.datekey<=ratetable.enddate
group by mydate

Didn't try...

Awesome article. Starting to comprehend failover clusters.