You can use ReadHost, like this:

$First = Read-Host -Prompt 'Input the TP lookup'

For the rest of the question, you really need to provide some text input or...

Likely you have a connection error, which might be due to a connection setting change from Power BI. I assume you are able to connect from SSMS.

From Power BI, is...

To add to what DesNorton noted, local variables only exist in a certain scope of this batch. Moving to some other batch, even inside a stored procedure, puts local variables...

The SQL Server setup program from the installation media.

These aren't databases. They are instances. A SQL Server install is an instance, and it can contain multiple databases. If these instances are not being used, and not ever started,...

In terms of getting parameters, I'd add a help to the script to note this, and then add parameters that return an error message if they aren't passed in.

For the...

The 2nd post is an automated post. As noted. If no one answers in a day, we bump the topic so that more people might see it.

In terms of your...

Windows Containers - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscontainers/about/

Client applications in containers: https://go.turbo.net/

The latter could be interesting, Rob, if your org wanted to modernize, but keep older apps running.

Check what? A feature? Code? There are lists of deprecated features, but these aren't well maintained. I haven't checked the XEvents, but supposedly those should catch code running that is...

I like sausage, but not sure I'd want to taste test scrapple. Or cook it.

Actually, this appears to have a list in 2019, even after restart.

If you run this on 2017, nothing appears. Even if I do something like:

EXEC sp_addtype @typename...

This is a counter, so it gets triggered when code runs with a deprecated feature.

I saw a talk on conflict free replicated data types at Bits one year. Fascinating, and like Brent, I find the stories interesting, even though I don't really see the...

Apologies, ticked the wrong answer box for some reason. This has been corrected.

Banned, but usually this just gets them to make a new account.

Marking/reporting at SPAM...