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Get ready to scale out SQL Azure databases beyond today's 50GB limit with the Transact-SQL and ADO.NET elastic sharding features, which are coming in the 2011 SQL Azure Federation Community Technology ...

The October release of Azure Data Studio (formerly called SQL Operations Studio) includes preview support for SQL Server 2019 and more. Azure Data Studio, which was introduced last year as SQL ...

The DICTIONARY tables component is specified in the FROM clause of a SELECT statement. DICTIONARY is a reserved libref for use only in PROC SQL. Data from DICTIONARY tables are generated at run time.

A common SQL habit is to use SELECT * on a query, because it’s tedious to list all the columns you need. Plus, sometimes those columns may change over time, so why not just do things the easy way? But ...

Microsoft made a series of database announcements at the Ignite conference, including the general availability of SQL Server ...

With the official release of Microsoft's latest database offering, let's see what was improved and what still needs some work ...

RIGHT JOIN (or RIGHT OUTER JOIN): It’s the opposite of a LEFT JOIN. It keeps all rows from the right table and matches from ...