Announcing General Availability of UNISTR function and ANSI SQL || Operator in Azure SQL

We’re excited to announce the General Availability (GA) of two long-standing capabilities that address critical needs for SQL developers and enterprise customers in Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance, configured with the Always-up-to-date update policy: UNISTR function for Unicode character representation ANSI SQL string concatenation operator (||) for standard-compliant string operations These additions […]
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