>>>I liken this to the 'Group By' situation in VFP8. How much time might we all have spent on this if MS hadn't told us about it up front. Knowing about it allowed us (at least, some of us) to avoid the situation completely. But for whatever reason, with regard to 'known' bugs, MS would rather we all bang our heads against them for a while before acknowledging that they've know about them all along.
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>>The change in the SQL Engine's GROUP BY was not a bug at all but a change in functionality. That's why Microsoft outlined it in the docs.
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>Man o' man, you 'defenders of the faith of whatever MS does' really really really have a problem when you take a simple analogy and pick it apart because of a silly technicality!

Do you equate those who don't happen to like whining ("Serving fine whines at any time") with approving everything they don't whine about?

>Alan's point was clear to me and most open-minded people -

Are you (self-described as "open-minded") saying that because I happen to disagree with you I am not "open-minded?"

> that MS went to lengths to explain the GROUP BY difference in an effort to save people frustrating debugging time

Do you have a cite from Microsoft to the effect that they publish changes in product functionality in order to "save people frustrating debugging time?"

> AND THE SAME APPLIES TO SHIPPED KNOWN BUGS!!!

Please don't shout.

Nobody likes bugs. I personally would rather find ways to make my programs work in spite of them than spend time discussing my frustration at why they exist in the first place.