MCP for each exam passed.

To study, you need to look through the  requirements and make sure you understand how to use each of these. There are sample...

Getting a timeout here for the lab site. Not sure if something is broken or not here.

As Sue noted, the CE is the CE now. You can go backwards with trace flags, but you should get used to the new CE being the one that is...

Wasn't trying to leave anyone out. Just grabbed a few that I thought of first and went with them.

Well, I'm done for event travel for the forseeable future. Had a lovely week in Athens and only one trip to the office in Feb coming. No event trips scheduled...

Crazy

I've just written scripts to do this. We have some here at the site: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/T-SQL/67368/

Closing. This is silly.

AV usually runs as a filter driver in the IO stack, not an injection in process.

Always exclude.

Hardware? 2016 standard has some limits.

I haven't seen this issue, but haven't tried SQL2008. Have you rebooted after install to be sure no pending operations?

Have you run a DBCC CheckDB? I'd be concerned about corruption here

I haven't done much more than have the deployment scripts available in the past. We used to keep a "changes.txt" on the desktop of every server, where DBAs could update...

Merry Christmas to everyone. A nice, quiet one here.