Microsoft SQL Server

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2014–2024), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with Microsoft SQL Server, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 8 complaints

Tools are brittle, prone to deadlocks, and force manual workarounds below the abstraction2024-11-04
Saved queries lose line breaks, so line comments break and need manual fixing2024-09-25
Tools made too easy hide complexity, so users get stuck with no idea why things break2020-04-13
Basic code reuse is very hard, and the advice to avoid scalar UDFs feels like a workaround2016-12-29
Installer is ridiculously hard to find on Microsoft's website2015-05-12
Spent 20 hours figuring out whom to pay for a license, gave up2015-04-30
Exporting query results to CSV breaks when text columns contain commas2014-11-17
Must add NOLOCK hints to many queries to avoid unwanted default read locking2014-11-16