Erland Sommarskog (7/14/2013)
The problem is only know when you don't need any of those other feature. You may not need Service Broker or Change Tracking today, but who knows what needs you may have three years from now?
I think the idea of a contained database is very good, but what is offered in SQL 2012 is too half-baked, to be really useful.
I agree, requirements keep changing and I think it's important to be flexible as much as possible. It will be great to see improvement from Microsoft in the next or two versions.