Brian Kelley offers some advice:
This is not a “clickbait” title, but an important consideration when it comes to developing technical solutions. Let me give you an example between two questions for SQL Server on-premises running on Windows.
Question 1: Does SQL Server allow you to set things like password complexity, password length, and the number of failed login attempts before the account is locked?
Question 2: Does SQL Server support things like password complexity, password length, and locking the account after a number of failed login attempts?
Betteridge’s Law of Headlines also applies to Brian’s post.
It’s so easy to get locked into answering the question without that additional context, and it’s also hard to tell if a person is asking question 1 because they don’t know the answer in general, or if they’re asking because they know you can do it in Windows but aren’t sure if there is a separate mechanism for SQL Server.