I'm not sure what the question is here.

You can't add a 2016 node, AFAIK, but you can add a 2012 node and then upgrade that to 2016. The upgrade process is that you upgrade secondary nodes and...

Hyperlinks are directions to the host, and you have no control over whether a link opens in a particular browser. If you can call ieexplore.exe, you can pass in a...

No.

I don't think this is an issue. I had an AD user create a db and then removed the AD user. I don't see the user removed, so not sure...

I still see this doc for 2016/2017. Are you sure this is going away?

This isn't hard to write in T-SQL with dbmail, but it seems easier with...

Seems like a not-Jeff day

Legacy on 2012 or earlier?

I'm not sure you can get the database moved without some sort of backup/restore. Log shipping is just an elongated backup/restore, but since you...

When you execute the program, I assume you're executing the console program. That means your security context. Are you running this from your machine or the server?

Agent can...

You haven't really explained what is happening. Moving data from other servers to Server B, what does that mean? What do linked servers have to do with this?

The...

Are you asking about setting up replication across the Internet? I assume you want transactional from your hosting provider to a VM in EC2. This is all about authentication and...

No one deletes rows from this DMV. The system manages this. This is a view, not a table of data. The data you want won't be in a backup.

If anyone wanted to tackle another side of this, that would be great.

I think your tone, Patrick, was fine. I didn't like it, it didn't relate to me, would have preferred x or y. That's great.

Leaving a comment like "So...