Access external data from Azure Synapse Analytics using Polybase
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Exploring the SQL Compare Options
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How to Expand a Range of Dates into Rows using a SQL Server Numbers Table
In this article we look at different T-SQL code examples that can help you build a range of date rows based on a starting and ending date.
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The Computing Revolution
Steve reflects on some of the ideas of how Microsoft imagines the future of computing.
SQL Server TempDB Tutorial
In this article we cover many different questions about the SQL Server TempDB database to give a better understanding of what is and what it is used for.
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EightKB 2026
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences I
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which are explicitly linked to increment a number in a table when a new row is added?
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