Kendra Little shares her opinion:
“Is it just me, or is SQL Server quality slipping?”
I asked myself that question for couple/few years until I faced up to it: SQL Server is well into a period where Microsoft investment is waning, and Microsoft regularly isn’t able to deliver the features they promise.
Read on for Kendra’s take. I’m not in total agreement with this, though part of that is because my stance is closer to (if you’ll allow me the misappropriation of a famous quotation), there is a great deal of ruin in a data platform product.
But if I had a single line of demarcation to Kendra’s point, I’d probably make it when SQL Server QA shifted to “We’ll find all of the bugs in Azure SQL DB first, so we don’t need this redundancy” several years back. That doesn’t explain everything, but it does provide a relevant timeframe for all of this.
No its True, the CETAS feature widely touted by Bob Ward as part of the Polybase overhaul wasnt implemented until CU5, I had to open a Ticket for MS to acknowledge that fact.