The error log is an ongoing file, one that's not bound by time in any sense. You could reboot or recycle every day, as mentioned, but that only sets a...

There's some truth here, but certainly organizations will stretch this and solicitors/lawyers will need to argue it out.

If you disclose the purpose, or you disclose a new...

FWIW: https://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/glenn/new-cpu-microcode-updates-for-intel-processors/

Should != reality. Unfortunately.

It would be helpful to know exactly what code/process is executing this, as noted by  Andrew. You might be performing quite a bit of unnecessary work and overloading the system....

Is there much of a difference between single server and scale out? Or having SSRS separate from the engine? If so, maybe better to have separate articles. If it's just...

Hmmm, OK. I tried this:

CREATE LOGIN JoeDBA with password = 'xxx'
GO
GRANT ALTER ANY DATABASE TO JoeDBA

I then opened a new window, logging...

Gah, not sure what I was thinking. Must have gotten distracted as I was moving the code over. Corrected. The answer and explanation should be 0####

There have been reports from some people, others reported no change. I suspect this is workload dependent.