I asked a two-part question on Twitter: if you could only remove one feature from SQL, why would it be cursors?
If you could only remove one feature from SQL, why would it be cursors?
— Brent Ozar (@BrentO) January 20, 2021
The responses were great:
Auto-shrink does not agree
— Warner Chaves (@warchav) January 20, 2021
service broker, bro.
— ? Andy Mallon #BlackLivesMatter (@AMtwo) January 20, 2021
Lightweight pooling
— Gianluca Sartori (@spaghettidba) January 20, 2021
Because SQLCLR was too popular.
— Marc Gravell (@marcgravell) January 20, 2021