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Embeddings are stored in a dedicated embedding table as explained in the Efficiently and Elegantly Modeling Embeddings in Azure SQL and SQL Server article. Please note that the script, depending on ...
Joey on SQL Server. How Telemetry Is Making SQL Server and Azure SQL Better: Part 1. In the first of this two-part series, Microsoft's lead SQL architect explains how the company collects -- and ...
For SQL Server and Windows Server 2012 or 2012 R2, you’ll get free ESUs on Azure until July 12, 2025; Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 extended support goes away on October 10, 2026.
Microsoft today released SQL Server 2022, the latest version of its database software, which originally launched more than 33 years ago.Microsoft describes this release as the “most Azure ...
First, the Compute nodes look like a traditional SQL Server, but without local data files or a log file. The Compute nodes write OLTP activity to the Log Service and fetches data pages from the Page ...
SQL Server 2022 customers will see benefits in the areas of data integration, analytics, governance, and high availability thanks to the database’s enhanced connectivity to the Azure cloud, Microsoft ...
This seems like more of a server room question than one for the MS forum, but if I'm wrong let me know and I'll ask for a lock/move.In any event:I'm trying to lab up SQL Server 2008 in a 2-node ...
SQL Server Standard Edition Server Licensing: ... (AWS) and one disaster recovery node in Azure, Microsoft is happy to have you do that. To answer another common question, ...
In Azure SQL Database you can also set a HISTORY_RETENTION_PERIOD (and should be able to do it in SQL Server 2017) to control how far back in time your history will extend. Converting Existing Table ...