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Exploring Knowledge Center in Azure Synapse Analytics

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Introduction Azure Synapse Analytics is an enterprise analytics service that brings together popular data warehouse technologies and big data systems together. It provides SQL for enterprise data warehousing, Spark technologies for big data, Data explorer for analytics, Pipeline for data integration and ETL and ELT, and other popular Azure services including Power BI, CosmosDB, and […]

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2022-03-11

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Azure Cosmos DB – HTAP using Azure Synapse Link

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In this article, we will explore the HTAP capabilities of Cosmos DB. The goal is to derive real-time insights from transactional changes made to Cosmos DB, in a cost-effective manner with minimal overhead. I want the solution to be scalable, reliable and overall simple to maintain.

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2021-11-03

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Encoding URLs

I have this data in a SQL Server 2025 table:

CREATE TABLE Response
( ResponseID INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT ResponsePK PRIMARY KEY
, ResponseVal VARBINARY(5000)
)
GO
If I want to get a value from this table that I can add to a URL in a browser, which of these code items produces a result I can use?

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