[Launched] Generally Available: Azure SQL updates for late-July 2025

In late-July, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL: Use the UNISTR intrinsic function to define Unicode string literals using Unicode encoding values in a string. Use the ANSI SQL concatenation operator (||) to concatenate charac

30/07/2025ComputeVirtual Machines

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