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Data Virtualization With SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters
**NOTE** Whilst this post refers to SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters, which requires signing up to the private preview, for those who don’t need
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There arn’t many articles out there that discuss Azure Data Factory design patterns. One big concern I’ve encountered with customers is that there appears to
