All volleyball day for me, open gym, practice for my team, then going to watch the US Men's beat the Dominican Republic and qualify for the World Championships next year....

I've seen both. Max, a "magic" number, and 255 from some frameworks.

Nothing I've seen so far. Since this is based on the VS shell, not sure it will port over.

There was a webcast a few weeks ago that announced the servicing model. I missed it, but Glenn let me know.

This means, a single branch of code and...

To be fair, plenty of people use tools (ErWin, Er/Studio, Visio, SSMS, etc.) to design:

create table customer
( CustomerId int
, Customername  varchar(1000)
,...

Sorry, wrong box checked. Points awarded back and answer corrected

ICYMI: https://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/glenn/modern-sql-server-servicing-model/

The graph implementation is limited, at least compared to other platforms. I'm not sure I'd use it, but I would love to see some testing here compared with a relational...

SQL 2016 isn't obsolete by any standard, neither is 2014. Both have been superseded, but are fine products if they meet the needs for your application.