Wow

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/30117114/los-angeles-dodgers-make-postseason-history-11-run-first-inning-vs-atlanta-braves

Sizes are likely out because the file list doesn't seem available.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/system-tables/system-base-tables?view=sql-server-ver15

You inspired me. I'm going to write an article  based on this, as some of these things are interesting...

If you restore headeronly for the master backup, this should give you the versions. You can map those to the CUs from here: https://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/sql-server-build-lists

If the master dbs are in...

They're not allowed to play for you until they've been quarantined on your team for 14 days, per Gov Cuomo

One other question, you have the systemdbs, but do you have the versions of SQL for each?

From a few others:

If you connect to the restored instance with the DAC, and then go to the restored_master, you can try this:

select * from sys.sysdbreg

That gets...

I don't think you can easily. Lots of stuff in here  is a view, which means there are live queries here.

What I'd do, is restore this master as the master...

If I have a clustered index on orderdate, and a nonclustered index on orderdate, I might use both of them. If I'm joining the table on orderdate, and not retrieving...

First few weeks meetings were far less, now my calendar looks like a losing game of Tetris.

If doctors complain about paperwork you should see what UK teachers have to...

I hate that that's the answer, but I think the multiple dependencies here are often a problem with some of the things in SSMS

Good, looking forward to snow

If I were going to FL, it would be Pensacola/Destin/etc. area, but unlikely. Gotten too used to the dry weather.

Now I have a hard time thinking of leaving CO, except...

All the older views are deprecated, but they are not likely to be enhanced, nor removed. You should be using the modern view.

For saving space, https://voiceofthedba.com/2014/12/01/creating-placeholder-files/

Thanks, I think I've gotten used to typing postgresql too often.

container are my go to now, to avoid installing more software that might change behavior. I keep thinking I ought...