If you have code using these, it may have issues. Other than that, shouldn't be an issue.

Note: Microsoft recommends this: https://support.microsoft.com/en-sg/help/2868725/microsoft-security-advisory-update-for-disabling-rc4

Memory and standard edition might be one reason. Likely ignorance is the biggest cause. People don't think about them, or as Grant mentioned, heard about early limitations.

Make sure you have all the stripes. You need them all for a restore.

Does it work? What are the hassles of running it this way?

I'm a big fan of using things that work, not changing them without a good reason.

How do you know this is all whitespace? The log is reused and should be rewritten over time. There is a circular nature to this, with SQL Server writing through...

It should not be growing every day with log backups unless you have an increasing workload. I suspect you're missing something. Perhaps your log backup are not running as you...

That is weird. I assume you moved to numeric/decimal? Or something else?

Any other numbers that you found to be a problem? I could likely script this, but it's an interesting...

Is the growth linear, or is it all of a sudden one day?

Glad you know what you're doing, and certainly I've made...

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Congrats

I work for a British company. We've had developers in AUS work for us

Thanks, I thought so, but wanted to be sure newer people to the platform are aware of this.

Should not, as a proc is not in SQLCMD mode. What is happening here in a script is SSMS in interpreting this a certain way.

You can call a proc here,...