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.

Comments, suggestions, feedback on the...

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

Arrgghh, the static site for Blob Storage seems to want to be difficult.

The base URL is: https://sqlmemorialstorage.z22.web.core.windows.net/

I'm still trying to figure out why the DNS doesn't work.

Thanks, I'll take a look and ask if I have questions.

I think the google https redirect goes to a different chain in Azure. I have a report into McAfee to remove this.

The host is http://www.sqlmemorial.org. Getting the domain to redirect has been a bit of a pain

I don't know how SAN replication will work here. Typically, when you replicate across a SAN, you can't have a secondary node up. The files are being changed by the...

Rod,

I think both of those are the reasons that 70+% of people don't feel empowered.

If you use SAN Repl, I don't know how failover works. If you use AOAG, this keeps things in sync. I don't like using replication as a term here, because...

I don't love the microservices model for lots of database stuff. You lose the power of the database to combine data together. If it is truly separate and isn't aggregated,...

No direct problems, but the multi subnet thing is complex. I would hire someone to review the idea. I might recommend SQLHA.com

What doesn't work? You say "this" , but what is this? The code from Steve seems to match your results.