What SQL Server Feature Do You Wish Would Go Away?


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