First published on MSDN on Oct 24, 2018 In the recent announcement at Ignite 2018 on the release of SQL Server 2019 CTP 2.0, the new Big Data Clusters , data virtualization, support for UTF-8 ...
Updated Mar 31, 2019
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haveyoumetcp It's available in Azure SQL, but only for managed instances - sadly the more cloud-centric SQL databases option does not support this, which is a shame - I really hope that Microsoft does bring this functionality to all SQL Azure versions eventually.