After getting tagged by Denis Gobo, I put my 2011 goals down on paper.

Tip : Identify and resolve key and RID lookup issues

I talk about some questionable choices by the SQL Server naming committee.

See some new metadata-related features introduced in SQL Server 2012.

Some older versions of SQL Server documentation were not very precise about the permissions required to change a table's IDENTITY_INSERT setting.

Sometimes, Microsoft's documentation – and the occasional comment in their own code – doesn't inspire a whole lot of confidence.

For this month's T-SQL Tuesday, I talk about things that can happen when management requirements and aggressive sales teams are faced with the realities of engineering.

I talk about a brand new feature that eventually arrived in SQL Server 2012: SEQUENCE.