Maybe you can help then. That step 6) "click on Properties. Select source and select log file option and browse folder where the file is saved.". I think...

Thanks Sue. I've been looking over perfmon since the day I put up this post. It's got some good information coming out of it, now I'm trying to figure out...

It looks like SESSION_CONTEXT is insert-only, if I'm reading the documentation correctly. I was looking for something where I could PUSH/POP from memory, but work with something that was a...

I'll check out your stairway, and then get back to this post once we have more information. Thanks to both of you for some direction.
--=Chuck

We'll likely pull in a consultant to examine the current setup, with the caveat that in-house training accompany the evaluation & changes.

I'll check out Availability Groups beforehand, but...

In order to see the list of updates to SQL Server, my server admin directed me to Control Panel>>Programs>>Programs and Features>>View Installed Updates. From there you can see what was...

OK, it looks like the hotfix and the CU are the same thing: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4019099/cumulative-update-13-for-sql-server-2014-sp1

Thanks to both of you. Looks like I'm good on role ownership, but I'm seeing database & schema ownership all over the place.
--=cf

Windows scheduled tasks ... good idea, thanks.
If the MSSQL services are not running under his login (and, they never were, luckily), what would his folder permissions and items in...

We tried changing that timeout parameter, and it didn't make a difference. Bummer.

I'm still waiting on the packet inspection to happen. Apparently we needed to purchase some...

Concerning AD Groups/Users in the SQL Instance, we instead utilize an approach which leverages the use of service accounts, which turns out to be a single SQL Server login per application...

If it helps, I can get the same behavior (duplicate emails starting at about the 40th email) by running something like the following, without any delay between emails. It happens...