Which feature in SQL Server and Azure Synapse Analytics lets you run T-SQL queries against external data stores and makes those external sources appear as tables in a SQL database?

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Power Query caches metadata (file lists, folder structures) from SharePoint to improve performance. When you connect via From SharePoint Folder, Power Query stores a local snapshot of the library’s ...

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Automation Architect. Develop applications in Java, Python, and Data Science technologies. Let’s say your product table has 100,000 products. If you call /api/products without pagination: The API ...

This Custom Data Connector wraps many of the "Get" endpoints in the Power BI API (with the exception of the /executeQueries endpoint), so that OAuth can be used to authenticate to the service. This ...

Connection strings are the text representation of connection properties for a data provider. The following table lists some examples of connections strings for various data connection types. Data ...