Update07/30/2025

Azure SQL Database now supports the UNISTR T-SQL syntax for Unicode string literals

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Update from:
patrick-devicebase (expert)

July 2025

New Features

UNISTR (Transact-SQL): Azure SQL Database now supports the UNISTR T-SQL syntax for Unicode string literals. For more information, see UNISTR (Transact-SQL).

|| (String concatenation) and ||= (Compound assignment) syntax support

Azure SQL Database now supports || (String concatenation) and ||= (Compound assignment) Transact-SQL syntax.

Stay tuned for upcoming Microsoft Azure SQL updates

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