Five changes to SQL Server I’d love to see


 

I’ve had lots of wish lists over the years, from Ladybug to Connect to UserVoice, and very few of my dreams ever come true. Still, it’s fun every once in a while, to be whimsical about the way I wished SQL Server worked. Especially in January because, you know, new beginnings.

So here are a few ideas that have crossed my mind recently:

DROP_EXISTING

I am constantly fiddling with indexes on our biggest database. It sometimes takes me 4 or 5 iterations on an index definition before I hit the sweet spot for the queries I’m targeting. If I