Can you take a picture of the screen there?

I find a lot of keyboards bury those arrow keys around the right shift key, which is annoying. I either up arrow to gt the right shift or shift over...

Download the latest SP, especially for 2012. Then run it, but check the instance. When you connect to this machine, do you connect with the machine name/IP or is it...

Thanks for the thoughts. Surface is out, as almost everyone I know has had some issue, especially with the undock. I don't undock much, but I am often changing networks...

Disclosure: I work for Redgate Software and am biased, so be aware. Also, I will not talk up or down anyone else's products. If others have experience or thoughts on...

Click Windows key, the type "services", you should see this:

Run the services app and then scroll down to the "s" section. You should see SQL...

That is an Azure SQL Database, not SQL Server 2012. There is no SQL Server service pack for this. Microsoft controls those versions and v12 is the current one.

What's the build there?

You can get builds  here: https://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/sql-server-2012-build-list

select @@version

gives the build

Semiconductor

Glad it works. You are welcome and hope this solves your issue.

The product key will not limit the number of cores. The PID is an administrative item, not an item that changes how SQL works. You can use affinity to limit...

Just a question about data masking. If a customer describes a problem in production, he uses the real environment with the real names of persons, etc. For example :...

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Glad we can help you in some ways, and maybe you'd like to write a bit on how you build a db for personal use sometime. I'm sure it might...

That should work, though I would think you could name the CMK/CEK the same on each system, even if different values.

I can see the answer as misleading. Edited it.