I took a week off - everything broke, they didn't know I was cleaning up "developer...

Blimey Jeff, you seem quite agitated on this one 🙂 good to see some passion

At my company we have a monthly team meeting (about 30 of us) where we do...

so either sp_addsubsciption hasn't run (I seriously doubt that)

This sounds like a permission issue, but i'm struggling with your English a little

first steps, can you put a tracer token through?...

I think of it more like "stranger things" , but I still get  visions of aliens bursting out...

If it's a SAN then you might have the same problem that we had with Amazon

depends on your configuration

our connectivity was shared over a network connection which was also shared...

chris is correct

this is complex (mostly on the fact that we don't know your environment)

normally we see bloat in the log file (which is easy to fix)

but bloat in data...

easy - register all of your servers in management studio as a group (it will appear with a pink bar at the bottom of the screen)

click on the group and...

I'm not entirely convinced that i'm answering the right question since your English is a little broken (nothing wrong in that, it's my 3rd language)

if max mem is set to...

Sp_readrequest runs constantly, so it will show as a long running query - my vague understanding is that it uses the service broker to wait for a mail and then...

My go-to steps for those types of errors are to try ping-ing the server you are connecting to from the machine that cannot connect to make sure it can...

OK let me in on the alliteration joke

ok - this is only a guess

Via powershell, you might be using a different protocol (and hence a different port number) - the username and password has nothing to do...

if you can connect via powershell, but live cannot connect - 100% firewall, DNS or port issue

rvadim is correct

just take the single quotes out of the query. - however if you have stored this as varchar (which is madness) thenyou need to use convert or cast...

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we're using Stretch - easy to configure and just silently puts your old records in the cloud, but allows you to query it like it was one table - there...