I certainly didn't mean every day, though I'm not opposed to every day. Well, I am for databases in general. I think once a week is a good cadence, but...

I've been wondering what chances DevOps has in an organization which doesn't want to adopt DevOps. I work at a place where resistance to DevOps is predominant. Because this...

https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/7218/dark-mode-ssms-configuration/

You can set up connections to create objects in msdb, or run sp_addjob, et al, from your CMS. This just runs scripts across all your connections.

You can, but the easy way for size checking is to look at backups. For logs, look at the size growth and then ensure your log has that size +...

Storage is separate from CPU/DTU cost.

I don't believe MAXSIZE impacts charging. You pay for the GB used.

You need to look at SAN monitoring.

Johan's advice is what I use. Grow manually before you need the space.

Listed here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/azure-sql-database/single/#pricing

Charged in 1GB increments

There's likely some security issue. The plan can't run itself. Possibly the job that runs it uses the sa account, or it's buried in the config.

I think Access has lots of issues for this reason, though you can back it up. There is a "compare": https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/compare-two-versions-of-a-database-database-compare-a969a77a-5251-4b59-84ea-74e12a135a05

However, that's not great for a VCS.

People hate upgrading, and...

I think early on the decision to not encrypt Express backups was sales to try and get people to use Standard. Personally, I wish they had a low=cost license for...

It was a Marketo/Adobe outage. Things should be working now.

Ugh, send a note to the team. Not sure what they broke

NoLock for payments is great. Just send me an email and delete my account from your system and I'm fine with whatever you want to do.

I love everyone as sysadmin. Gives me plenty to do if I'm paid by the hour 😉