Thanks for the reply 🙂

So then, how can you tell the difference between when the drain operation is working, and when it's not? Are there attributes in the SQL Server...

Thanks Sue. That was pretty much my take on the article. I just wanted to see it through another DBA's lense. Much appreciated.

I probably described this poorly, "hard-coding" was the best I could come up with. I suppose saying that "we put a string literal" in works also.

But, what ended up fixing...

I guess, then, what I am wondering is if vmtools is installed on the server, is there any real difference between options 2, 3 & 4? Because there's a slick...

When I log in to run the process, I'm logging into the SQL Server instance with my AD account, and I have verified that I have access to the file.

I'm not getting that same experience. We did receive something similar to this when the Meltdown/Spectre flaw was responded to, and due to it's severity, the combination Security Patch/CU update...

Determine if you want to alter the compatibility level to match with your 2016 install.
If you aren't recreating the folder structure where you store your data and log...

Both of those shutdown suggestions are very much appreciated. If I encounter anything worthy of posting here after experimenting with them, I will do so. Thanks for the help.

Because we may allow external web access to the server running SSRS, we wouldn't want to place our data in SQL Server on the same machine. 
--=Chuck

It was the licensing piece that caused me to rethink my assumptions, 8 licenses vs 4 licenses. We are using SQL Standard too, so we aren't going to be licensed...

Thanks for the help.

Maybe this is a more pointed question, that I just haven't found an answer to yet:
Is the typical setup usually to put SSRS, and...

Nice. Thanks 🙂
In case it helps someone else, there's a single line item for each download (SP's and CU's in this case) along with a download button. When I...

Based on my personal history, I am far more comfortable with designing the database first. But, I also want to keep an open mind if conditions have improved within the...

Got it.
I'll let this run on a development server over the weekend and then come back & see what kind of data was generated.
--=Chuck

Ah, I can get to that as an option, but I can only seem to find it for the real-time performance monitor, but not for a Data Collector Set.
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