These are fun questions

As much as I think everyone on GMT/UTC would make sense, it's a hard cultural adjustment. Would I want to get up at 2pm and go to bed at 5am?...

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Memory Optimized Tables. The Hekaton technology. These are essentially filestream filegroups.

Firestream (and Filetable SMB access) is great for people that used to store a lot of documents in...

Filestream is being used. It's part of the basis for MOT.

I think the bigger issue is that Filetable doesn't easily extend well to the cloud, which means that...

Simple one, but good to know. I can never remember the names of collations

Glad you liked the question. Learned a few things building these with identity.

This needs to be in the database in which it will work. I don't think you can set this in a separate database.

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Definitely both of those are challenges. What new metrics show that we're getting things done. I think it becomes helpful to start to look at where you focus effort. Like...

I think you have terminology that looks funny. The Failover Clustered Instance (FCI) is the Windows install. You have that.

The SQL Server is a default or named instance,...

I believe if you have Software Assurance, then #3 not licensed, but can't be used for anything. No DBCC, no reads at all.

Don't see the 2016 sheet, but...