There are a lot of shopping days left before Christmas, and even more before the next version of SQL Server ships, so might as well get my wish list over to Santa now so the elves can start working on ignoring them.
My work focuses on performance tuning, so that’s what my wish list focuses on, too. They really are wishes, like I-want-a-pony, because I know I’m discussing some stuff that’s easy to describe, but really challenging to implement.
Forced Parameterization v2: The original implementation of this feature helped mitigate the multiple-plans-for-one-query issue, but it has a ton of gotchas, like