Which are the SQL improvements you are waiting for?

Question

Dealing with SQL shows us some limitations and gives us an opportunity to imagine what could be.

Which improvements to SQL are you waiting for? Which would you put on t

Answer 1

Support in SQL to specify if you want your query plan to be optimized to return the first rows quickly, or all rows quickly.

Oracle has the concept of FIRST_ROWS hint, but a standard approach in the language would be useful.