Please mark Jeff's answer as correct, if you wouldn't mind.

FYI, I submitted a PR anyway and it's being reviewed. Just added a sentence about passwords, so hope that URL will get updated with my change and you can keep...

I try to throw lots of photos to FB for the reason that I have a 3rd place (and Insta).

I think I'll try BackBlaze, though other than...

Nothing good out there. I emailed MS and got this link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/security/authentication-access/principals-database-engine

Perhaps that's the best one as it notes you should not delete them. I asked...

We can't confirm anything. We don't have your server.

If you read the link, Case 2 from Paul is likely what you need to do, if you cannot follow...

If you need PoSh, Inboke-SQLCmd makes many things easier. Just drop your code in there.

Skin. Of. My. Teeth.

LOL, nice, Jeff. I was hoping to avoid some variable in there, but that looks nice.

How would you do this manually? If I said today, compress the partition from yesterday, what would you do? Likely you can get the code right and then look at...

Potentially. If you can't take a tail log backup, any changes not in data files will be lost.

For mirroring, the rules are to really patch the mirror first. Stop the services on the mirror (secondary) side, apply the patches. Bring back up and sync. Then start applying...