While this is an interesting discussion, I have no idea what this means for the community. Your opening post, and most of this discussion, seems to be about technical views,...

Yeah, it's government for the "cloud" provider...

My team leads' gone over the contract and it's not specified in the contract.  What he's trying to collect, information-wise, is how much...

This is similar to the OODA loop the military uses, as well as Deming.

Saying get used to it is how many companies and organizations have operated, but that is changing....

There is no reason to abbreviate this, especially in modern instances, but you might find this code, so knowing what this is, or knowing there is an issue, is the...

It was very quick, and I knew about it yesterday, but didn't really do much other than give a vote to try. Still amazed it happened.

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You'll have to include more details. What is "n and null"?

The ON clause is processed similar to how a WHERE clause, but it is done first. The joins and on...

I'm slightly confused here. The purpose of SQLMI is that MS handles backups and restores. There is automation to allow this, whether PITR or from a specific backup, but AFAIK,...

Two things.

1. Filetable (2012+) solves some of the code hassles of using FileStream. Filestream uses a File I/O access, but not a SMB share.
2. Rather than help a normal user...

A lot of the same things are used, but you don't have the same access in the master / msdb databases, so those items are evaluated differently. Is there something...

Short answer, I'm not quite sure. This feels more complex than it appears.

Always a challenge to learn something new when you're working, though I am surprised you can't do some of this at work. I'd think some of these might be useful...

My mistake. I re-read this. Corrected to 2017.

It was very quick, and I knew about it yesterday, but didn't really do much other than give a vote to try. Still amazed it happened.

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Ah, you might be right. If I go back and think, the GDR should be only for that level, but future CUs will include it.

For SQL 2017,

• RTM
• GDR patch...

Thanks. This is actually SQL Server 2016+, but I've edited the question