I am not privy to why the "simple act of redefining the column as NOT NULL adds 10 bytes" are "perfectly explainable". Please do. 🙂 I mean the column exist...

Here is a script that details what I do step by step so you can repeat my results. I've found a clue at least - the column added is variable...

• This reply was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by  timoq.

Thanks for the tip, I was expecting there was a remedy similar to this.

I'm just concerned why I should need it in the first place, why has the chain...

Don't think this is very telling, I was forced to reinitialize the secondary DB from a full backup and currently its all green (still its reporting the error about database...