I have been involved in several discussions over the past week involving getting more diagnostic information out of the DMVs in SQL Server 2008 and beyond. Yesterday, I asked for procedure recompiles to be tracked in the new sys.dm_exec_procedure_stats DMV: http://connect.microsoft.com/SQL/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=388218 Today, ...

A few days ago I posted a list of Management Studio issues I hope they will add or fix for the next version of SQL Server (or sooner).  Comments there and elsewhere, as well as some afterthoughts, have led me to publish an addendum.  Again I will present them in separate categories. Filtering There are several issues about filtering, ...

Inspired both directly and indirectly by fellow MVP Erland Sommarskog, whose programming wishlist I talked about the other day, I have decided to compile a list of my own wish list items, in the same spirit of, ''it's never too early.''  This list is restricted to issues involving Management Studio; I was going to cover all of ...

SQL Server 2008 is out, and I'm sure you are either learning about or already enjoying some of the new features.  And while the dev team probably doesn't wholeheartedly agree with me at this very moment, I think that it can never be too early to start thinking about the next version. As you surely know, not all of the features we have ...