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.

Glad you liked it.

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...

From the identity perspective, I don't think anything. either SELECT INTO is what it does. If you use it from different sources, you might get different results.

From our perspective, at Redgate, we've talked about this. There is a lot of engineering to building a debugger and it takes quite a bit of support. SSMS is a...

Actually one with more votes: https://feedback.azure.com/forums/908035-sql-server/suggestions/35691865-dont-remove-debugging-from-ssms-18-0

Apologies, not trying to convince you you're wrong. My comment about my situation was an aside, and my response was about your noting it's easy to reconfigure SSMS. It is...

WHERE logic.

Just remember your frame of reference or way of working isn't everyones. I hit a lot of new SSMS installs, so customizing all of them isn't practical. Usually run SSMS...

Congrats and good luck. I'd love to go, but that's my first big volleyball weekend tournament in Denver. I'll be busy those two weeks here.

It certainly does, especially dependent on the workload and resources available to prototype.