Project Nami - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/project-nami-wordpress-for-azure-sql-database-sql-server/

The WP stuff is fairly generic SQL. Andy Warren went through this a few years ago and put his WP blog on SQL...

Yep, forgot SSRS, but those are older versions. What I'd propose is closing the old forums, leaving just admin/dev for all vesrions open for new posts. People can note their...

Well, the InstantASP people have said they're adding tags. It's a question of when we upgrade to get them. Hopefully this year.

Mandatory is never something l like. Having...

We're not changing from InstantForum. Keep in mind that what you've seen as breakage, there are plenty of people that see improvements. We don't get to pick/choose specific features.

Maybe moving the "Older" versions to a single forum with the 2 subforums for each makes sense. I'm thinking that anything older than 2014 is "older". So we'd have 2017,...

Interesting. I'd guess there's some sort of padding or overhead, as Phil noted. Maybe try a few different known sizes and see? I'll try to load a few as well.

Yeah, I'm not interested in doing that. Definitely need something to occupy my days.

Feel free to chime in here: http://community.instantasp.co.uk/18923/Add-tags-for-topics

Not possible. At least not short term. Tags would be better, IMHO, but either is a fairly intrusive change to this forum code.

It might be possible to have a sysadmin login that didn't have rights to start the service. Starting SQL Server is a Windows level function, not something inside of SQL...

Here you go. Use a CASE. Also, use DATETIME2 and SYSDATETIME(). Always assign a date variable, then use the current date as a default. This let's you test, and reuse...

What does Datalength() show?

Ha ha. No,...