Some people signed on July 4, but all did not complete the signing until later.

That makes sense. I'd hope that your previous employer would have someone checking mail for a time and could forward on a reset, but I understand.

It makes sense. ...

I was just worried you might have SP2 and CU11 for SP1. Or something similar. Can be confusing with the CUs since there is a CU1 for RTM, SP1, and...

Can't tell based on your post. The workload will determine if this is an issue. There will be IO to read the log and write the backup file, however, this...

We could, though I'm not sure how much of a priority this could be. We ought to have some recovery, but have never had an issue.

What purpose would...

Strange. You are applying SP1, not SP2? http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/SQL+Server+2014/101274/

If it's one machine/drive, it's likely security. Try as Jeff suggested.

So many security issues in technology start with "no one will ever ..."

You would be amazed how easy it can be to de-anonymize data. When there is value...

Logged in, changed the avatar, and ready to go.

Hopefully with a better result than last year.

Show the calculations the, with a couple data sets. We can't see the requirements, and in code we can calculate this many ways. Without seeing what you are trying to...

Closing as this isn't a SQL 2016 question.

The version of  SSMS isn't relevant. The SQL Server database version is.