Good luck. Post more questions if you have them.

These are the values in the chart above. If you look at the default pool, you have:
min(100,100-(20+50))
That really means you get min(100,30), so the result is 30.

There are definitely issues with management, but there is also time involved to get people to learn to be better. That is something that should happen, but it can't happen...

I probably need to do that as well, but I've been waiting for someone (like you) to write about it. Not really at a place where I can spare a...

Are you saying this was older hardware/firmware that was being used as part of infrastructure? Was this to a SAN from the db server? Is it coincidence or is there...

Haven't tried so far. Talked to someone at the PASS Summit and they noted this is not very easy to do, so I've stayed away. I have enough rabbit holes...

If you set the master key to be encrypted by the SMK, it should be opened automatically. Disconnecting that is usually something you do when you do not wantt he...

I would advocate that some debt is good because this does meet a timeline or a milestone that's required. While we would all like to be expert coders, we aren't...

Not sure what happened, but I don't see a draft in the system. We get submissions all the time and I haven't seen any concerns come through the webmaster, but...

You are correct. This question is a mess. Set everything back to log since that was the original title. Should be OK now.