This has dramatically improved, and secure out of the box is close. Privileges, remote access, and more aren't enabled. Homegroups in Windows don't have default shares, nor do they allow...

Thanks, I'll take a look as soon as I can

I used VMWare and Ubuntu installed easily for me. I think LTS16.04. Simple and easy. This was my second time, though, as I had a basic one to play with...

Plenty of reasons. You might have code that violates a 2016 keyword. You might have upgraded and forgotten to change the level, but things work fine.

My wife and I went to Austin City Limits a few years ago. Expensive trip (flight, hotel, tickets) but it was exciting and amazing. We went to see Stevie Wonder...

I understand your complaints. However, despite deprecation, I can use Triple DES as a choice for the DEK. It's valid on a SQL Server 2016 instance. There's nothing in the...

Is there any way I could get some of you to change habits and note quote 3,4, 10 posts in your replies? It does clutter the forum and make it...

SQL Clone from Redgate, Windocks, plenty of ways to help from third parties. Disclosure: I work for Redgate.

If you just need to move databases often, is backup/restore not...

I'm not recommending this specifically, but Cloudberry is one solution to move files to Amazon or Azure. They have a database item, but you can just use their...