If you follow the same code path, unless the data changes, you'll get the same result.

However, and this might be me mis-reading your post, but it seems like there are...

The reseller sounds slightly incorrect. You always need a key for licensing. Maybe they are holding the key to keep you going back to them, but they shouldn't.

you need some...

I'm glad you posted. I had never thought of a pull request as being on the same branch, albeit a copy that is ahead of a remote. It made me...

Interesting. I can't find any doc on it, even the git-scm docs for pull-request use branches.

I'm not sure it's a common practice. If you're merging from dev->origin/dev, I'd argue those...

The summary offered is not strictly true, in that a pull request does not necessarily involve two different branches, merely the incorporation of work after code review into a...

I'm not sure the keywords item is a big issue for some cases. Lots of people might upgrade from a previous version and not change code. In that case, we...

That's a tough place to be.

I feel that a bit as I'm one of the much older people at Redgate, who are often in their 20s. I do try to...

https://feedback.azure.com/forums/908035-sql-server/suggestions/32902789-dynamic-data-masking-make-unmask-more-granular

First, they both work great. There's nothing wrong with TFVC or Git. I would say that Git has really won the battle of which one to choose. Most new projects...

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I don't have one here, though I should write a quick one.

Here's one I've used before: https://towardsdatascience.com/sql-server-with-python-679b8dba69fa

Altered the question to note a database file on the c: drive.

you can re-run setup, and check the "add features" checkbox to see what's installed.

For settings, you can get sp_configure and some other settings, but this might help: https://www.red-gate.com/simple-talk/sql/sql-training/how-to-document-and-configure-sql-server-instance-settings/

Can I...

Simplest, make a DBA database, on startup, have a proc that writes the time to a table. use a job that writes to a second column of the latest entry...

Hope it goes well, Ralph