Thanks. I don't see the tag on Twitter. Did it get tagged elsewhere?

Call Microsoft. The log file needs the data file. The data file can be read with a hex editor, but you need someone with the expertise to do that.

SELECT t.x.value('COLUMN[1]', 'varchar(50)') AS FirstName
  , t.x.value('COLUMN[2]', 'varchar(50)') AS LastName
  , t.x.value('COLUMN[3]', 'varchar(50)') AS CountryName
FROM @xml.nodes('/RESULTS/ROW') AS t(x);

You are welcome. Hope we see some posts.

For the tagging, I'll think a bit and try to structure the issues as I see them.

Tagging is coming (I think) in the upgrade to this forum software. We have that on top of a list, just waiting on a few resources. Tagging for articles is...

I'd add a field to the staging table that allows me to batch things. So if I loaded 10 records, I'd mark those 10 as "in process", and if there...

You can use Get-Credential to enter new credentials.

Thom has some good thoughts. I'd also add what is your skillset? Or that of your team?

If you have mostly Linux or Windows experience, it's a con to...

There are items inside SQL Server that use the CLR objects, so the .NET framework is required.

run dbcc to check this table, and really, you ought to run a dbcc checkdb across the entire database.

Well, no real problem, but often the patching process will require the service to stop and restart. A host OS reboot might occur. Actually, I'm not sure if any CU...

I think you're right, in that you need SA and you get one failover. You'd be OK with the licensing here. We have BAGs here, but we assume that failover...

Are you trying to somehow track a missing index to a query?

You capture warnings: https://sqlperformance.com/2015/10/extended-events/capture-plan-warnings