Configuration Manager works well, but can be confusing. If you look at Services, do you see a SQL Server service? Is it running and is the SQL browser running?

Persistent volumes is a separate item. This was just to help people get started.

Re: Begin/end, I think this is a good programming practice and it shows that you intentionally put certain code in the procedure. If you're executing the code under the gun,...

I wouldn't think this is common, but likely a mistake. One developer creates a key and doesn't know what others are using and the key collides.

To me,  this...

You don't get points for saving money

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Trying to add some more when I can. It's not much different, but there are a few things.

I've tried different things. Mostly I struggle to keep up. Right now I use Google to offload some stuff. I have a desktop where I put a lot of pictures,...

That's...

I have whacked tables and I've seen  DBAs restore over or drop the wrong db and kill production. No one got fired, but there were tense moments.

This usually...

Seems to be better. No prettifying yet, but I pasted this from SSMS.

Plenty of people may never have encountered this. Remember that learning is a journey for many. Few of us are in the same place as others.

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The incorrect answer is "set defaultdatadir /prod/data".

The correct answer is "set filelocation.defaultdatadir /prod/data"

This is specified in  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/linux/sql-server-linux-configure-mssql-conf?view=sql-server-2017#datadir

You are referencing an article that has a mistake. This might have...