Bill Nicolich

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  • Interests: E-commerce data. Set-based operations. Automation programming. Architecture of public interfaces and private interfaces within classes. Managing complexity. Evolutionary psychology. Classic literature. The author Joseph Conrad. The author Marianne Moore.

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Stairway to Azure SQL Hyperscale Level 6: Backup and Restore Internals

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Deprecated Feature Tracking

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Question of the Day

Deprecated Feature Tracking

From T-SQL, without requiring an XEvent session, can I tell which deprecated features are being used on my instance?

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