Glad it worked. I'd say undo the setup and restore the cert, then setup again. It's not that complicated. It is stressful though.

As Sue mentioned, you won't get any improvement here. There is slight value with more files at times, and there are often better performance on different drives, but slight. Really...

You can also use a proc to check if something changed. As sgmuson noted, you can use a semaphore (flag) to not editing. however, what can also be done is...

Each instance is limited to the max number of connections. If you connect to a readable replica, that has it's own set of connections, as noted above. However, if the...

Read Perry's stairway, which will help you understand. The cluster presents itself as a virtual IP and name, in addition to the IP and name that each node has.

This might help: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Microsoft_SQL_Server_to_PostgreSQL_Migration_by_Ian_Harding

There are tools that do this, but I think most cost money:
https://www.ispirer.com/products/sql-server-to-postgresql-migration
https://www.devbridge.com/articles/migrating-from-mssql-to-postgresql/#
https://dbconvert.com/mssql/postgresql/

I think you'd need some eventing (XE) to capture tempdb usage and also activity that's going on at that point.

R services in the database are a part of the core engine. The CUs/SPs will update r services. The code used is the same as other code. Nothing really for...

There's no real "best". The way that different auditors or authorities might examine your architecture will vary.

TDE gives you encryption at rest, and lots of auditors like...

There is a file target. That's the point in the question. It asks  about persisting data in the file target, not the ring buffer.

I'm not sure what the last few posts are meant to mean. If the question or answer wrong? The question asks about the data in the file target, not the...

All objects should be in the SMO model somewhere. Dig through the classes to add what you need:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt571730.aspx