Well that is mostly usual when developers are having direct write access to  production databases specially the new joinees.

Any sort of script executions should be happening through the DBA's. Even...

Probably your best bet would be to look at the SQL Instance settings of MAXDOP and Cost Threshold for Parallelism but these would be effective for all the queries. 
Look...

To implement TLS or SSL encryption certificates are used. If your company has Enterprise Certificate Authority, you can request a certificate for SQL Server and then configure SQL Server to...

Is the certificate installed on SQL Server ? If yes, then your connections will be encrypted since there is a verifiable server certificate.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/native-client/features/using-encryption-without-validation?view=sql-server-2017

Also it...

I would assume log backup file corruption. It could be either during the backup in the source or after copying to the destination.
>>Check for the log file size (sometimes...

As mentioned in earlier post, having multiple disk controllers is better for SQL Server. It is always good practice to separate your OS files, SQL Data files, Log files, TempDB...

You can check the below link which might be helpful for you in troubleshooting database mail issues.

http://www.midnightdba.com/DBARant/complete-troubleshooting-guide-for-sql-server-databasemail-dbmail/

Regarding the future date it shows - Microsoft...

That is a very large table that you intend to manage. SQL Server can definitely handle the table based on the underlying hardware thrown at it....

After having one default instance every SQL installation after that will be a named instance which will have a ' \ ' in the instance name. As suggested by 

March 22, 2018 at 10:19 am

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Check here: License Information

It depends on the type of SQL Licensing you are currently using. If you are using CAL-based then you should not worry about licensing adding new cpu but if you...