Part of the issue with many of these devices right now is they don't remember context well and move from action to action, refining or better serving people. I think...

I'll disagree on discussing potential solutions and issues. Security does not really depend on obscurity, but well know, practiced principles and then protecting specific implementations, like passwords, IPs, networking config,...

I saw a post today from Brent Ozar on this. They recommend doing index rebuilds as a way of testing the network load.

If you're in  simple mode,  maybe...

Must be some artifact of dealing with various numeric notations. Still, strange.

I have no idea. Precedence means that '1,,,,,' is converted to money, but I don't understand why the multiple separators don't cause an error.

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Keep in mind if you shrink the MDF, you can cause index fragmentation. You may need to rebuild indexes, which means space is needed in the files.

SQL Server...

I'll try to blog or write a better article(s) on this stuff as well. I demo it, but don't have great pieces on it. I'll rectify. If you have questions,...