This time around, I've got five wish list items for T-SQL / DDL, and then one bonus - a parallelism bug. My thinking on the former is that, since we are either about to start (or are just finishing) locking down the code for SQL Server 2012, this is the first moment where some of these suggestions can be seriously considered without the ''but ...

Hide databases from users who shouldn't be able to see them This is a long-standing request from Erland Sommarskog which I've highlighted in previous digests. But the underlying problem keeps coming up in multiple venues, so I thought it would be good to call attention to the item one more time. Some will argue that the contained database feature ...