I'd open a case with MS.

Here you go: https://support.microsoft.com/en-sg/help/4053407/sql-server-2017-cannot-decrypt-data-encrypted-by-earlier-versions

sp_configure 'remote connections', 1
reconfigure with override.

Might need to connect locally with ssms/sqlcmd

Hope he continues to play well in NY. Definitely exciting to see NYY perhaps become a favorite to compete in the AL.

I have an old Windows Home server for a file share at home. Usually move over pictures/video from other machines there.

These days I'd be tempted to add a...

Nice enhancement, Jeff. I knew someone might come up with a more detailed code solution

It's from a private list with MS that the option was suggested. If this is not a test environment, I wouldn't enable that without guidance from MS. In fact, with...

That's true, but you always need a first full backup. There's no trickiness here. If your primary database hasn't had a full backup without copy only, you are asking for...

Many foreign sites will use a few flags to determine the language you want to site to be. Some will auto-detect, so many of us in the US will see...

No, IIRC, you need a network name.

So if I had two Windows hosts, SQL01 and SQL02, I might have the cluster be SQLSales. Essentially each has two names...