In Git, everything is a peer. You can designate one peer as a central server, and many people do this in their organization. Everyone has VCS01 as a remote for...

You need extended events to do this. This isn't tracked by SQL Server, so there's no query to run now. A session has to be set up in advance.

It's not that alarming, but it is interesting. Especially if you export from your db for import into Excel. The issue is a 2nd level injection, potentially running code that...

Permissions have changed. There is a Administer Bulk Operations permission that is available in SQL 2012.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/statements/bulk-insert-transact-sql

I've used VSS, SVN, TFS, Git, Mercurial, Vault. I prefer Git overall.

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That might be it. Certainly there's a bit of mystery for me in how this actually happens.
I think the SSL implementation is a little hokey in SQL Server and...

Perhaps. I think Excel is great in many ways. More, I think the idea of programming as a part of basic applications is a bad idea.

This doesn't quite make sense. You're using data compression, but you can't install SQL 2016? Or do you mean you want to install SQL 2016, but can't on Windows 7?

Compression takes extra CPU. Typically this loss of CPU cycles is made up for by reducing I/O, but that would be something you'd have to test with your system and...

Big hole. The idea with Always Encrypted is that the server is untrusted, the clients are. If you want to implement something, I'd suggest that you use an external application,...