In addition to ingestion, you can apply arbitrary T-SQL transformations before loading the data into a table. For example, you can convert data types, derive new column values, filter rows, join file ...

Use a T-SQL query to ingest and transform data from tables in the current warehouse, mirrored databases, or other supported items in the same workspace. The statement-selection guidance is centralized ...

To provide the most compact file storage for the bulk export of data in native format to a data file, the **bcp** command precedes each field with one or more characters that indicates the length of ...

SQL accuracy is the percentage of scored queries that return the reference result. Incorrect routes and references flagged as broken are excluded. A reference query is the SQL supplied as the expected ...

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