My post earlier this year on enabling query folding when using SQL queries as a data source in Power Query provoked a lot of interest. This post adds one more useful detail: how to preserve the ...

Learn how to use the xsd:type and sql:datatype attributes in SQLXML 4.0 to control the mapping between XSD data types and SQL Server data types. [!INCLUDE SQL Server Azure SQL Database] In an XSD ...

The SQL data types are contained in the SQL_DESC_ CONCISE_TYPE, SQL_DESC_TYPE, and SQL_DESC_DATETIME_INTERVAL_CODE fields of the implementation descriptors. Characteristics of the SQL data types are ...

Bring AI to your database! Learn how to build smarter apps with vector search in SQL Server & Azure Cosmos DB -- no extra AI ...

A year ago support for nested data types in Excel was announced on the Excel blog, but the announcement didn’t have much detail about what nested data types are and the docs are quite vague too. I was ...

Included is information on embedding SQL statements, language restrictions, and supported data types for host variables. Because REXX is an interpreted language, no precompiler, compiler, or linker is ...

Included is information on language restrictions, host-language-specific include files, embedding SQL statements, host variables, and supported data types for host variables. Do not use C preprocessor ...