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 ...

It’s surprisingly easy to stop query folding happening in Power Query by changing the data type of a column. This is mentioned in the docs here, and it’s something several people have blogged about ...

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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 ...