Dedicated SQL pool (formerly SQL DW) supports the most commonly used data types. For a list of the supported data types, see [data types](/sql/t-sql/statements/create ...

[!INCLUDE SQL Server Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Managed Instance] The same subset of information that is used to define a table in CREATE TABLE. The table declaration includes column definitions, ...

Last week I was working on a Power BI custom data connector for a customer and I came across a problem that has been bothering me for a while. The “Invoke Custom Function” button is a very powerful ...

This became even easier in SQL Server 2005 with the advent of the XML data type and XQuery. You still need to construct and shred the XML data before you can use it; this is functional but not simple.

DICTIONARY is a reserved libref for use only in PROC SQL. Data from DICTIONARY tables are generated at run time ... label='Member Name', memtype char(8) label='Member Type', name char(32) ...

This post adds one more useful detail: how to preserve the original data types of the columns in your query when using this technique with SQL Server-related sources. Consider the DimDate table in the ...

Like memory-optimized tables, SQL Server generates a DLL for each memory-optimized table type. As is the case for memory-optimized tables, the DLL includes the functions for access indexes and ...