clarified the question to note an attempt to change, successful or not, rather than "changed"

Have not forgotten. Another MVP says this doesn't work, so he uses the SQL Audit functions.

It got bumped twice from MS people, each adding another person. So far...

I actually dislike checking history. What I'd do is have the first job set a semaphore somewhere. Use a small table, mark that the job completed and when. Then have...

Nope, anyone doing this is going to get into trouble. You need transactionally consistent backups, which might be possible if the VSS service can pause the disk writes while you...

Reference / URL for where you see this?

For me, reading the docs and having an understanding is good, if only because we're human. A lawyer might explain to me that we need to handle data correctly for...

Sure. No...

We're not saving babies is the expression that the work doesn't have to be done right now and be 100% correct. Could there be implications down the line? Sure, if...