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The Voice of the DBA Community Direction

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Sep 22, 2010 Community Direction

hought it was a great idea. It was a way for real users to submit bugs, and others to see those bugs, voting on them if they thought they were important. It would help Microsoft determine what features and bugs are important and perhaps allocate resources accordingly. However there was a fundamental problem with the system. People would see individual items, and could vote for them, but wouldn't have an idea of what other items might be listed.

The work on SQL 11 is underway, and recently I got a note from Itzik Ben-Gan asking people to vote for windowing enhancements to the T-SQL language. I'm not sure exactly of all the places that these are useful, but Itzik is one of the smartest people I know and I tend to believe that if he finds these enhancements useful, they are likely going to make T-SQL easier to work with.

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