If you don't need them, purge them. If they're queried rarely, partitioning might help with management and remove some blocking/locking.

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Not sure. I think the intention is if you have lots of sparse columns, rather than having long queries for each, you get a single column with the values that...

I'd think those are 3-4 articles at least. Assume SSIS is installed on the server side, but for the client side, show the install and an import, like a CSV....

Check with your mail administrators. They might have restrictions on STMP relays.

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You are welcome. Again, even in a VM, you might try isolating it from the network once you've gotten the backups restored, before you restart. Then you can practice renaming.

Thanks, and no worries. I'll get to it as quick as I can.

Locking this thread for now.

I'll let Dan respond as he runs the league