This can be done effectively by your active participation in providing feedback. Though there are several ways to do it, the best way to track and evaluate the impact on unaddressed issues across customers, is through reporting them through MSDN product feedback center which is incorporated in SQL Server Management Studio. You can access MSDN Product Feedback Center from Management Studio by selecting “Send Feedback” menu item under “Community” Menu or by going directly to the link

http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/

By using this channel, you could log bugs directly or browse over the existing bugs that correspond to the issue you are running into and vote the importance of the fix for that bug. Our team constantly watches the incoming bugs and goes over the importance of the bug to be addressed based on number of voters and the rating of how important the fix is needed.

We are starting to plan and work on our next service pack and your input is the key factor for success of SP2!

Thanks,

Gops Dwarak, SQL Server Tools Team, MSFT