Steve Jones - SSC Editor (8/19/2013)
And another view, somehow timed to come out with mine: http://blogs.lessthandot.com/index.php/ITProfessionals/ProfessionalDevelopment/microsoft-isn-t-the-devil
When it comes to complaints leveled against Microsoft from the general development community about software quality or even privacy, I do find it to be "thin gruel". There arn't any major bugs or missing features in SQL Server that I can recall (not in 2012 nor 2008), that have caused me downtime or reason to consider switching to another database platform.
However, if I had to mention at least something, I would say that I am perturbed that ColumnStore indexes are not updatable in SQL Server 2012 Enterprise Edition. So after creating the ColumnStore index, we have to either drop or disable it before inserting / updating the table, and then re-create again. It's not a show stopper, I'm just sticking with covered indexes and included columns for now until the missing functionality is provided in v2014.
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho