An add-on to Microsoft volume licences granting benefits like upgrades to newer releases and Azure Hybrid Benefit on Windows Server.
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Terms in this definition
- Volume
Holds non-tabular files sitting in cloud storage under Unity Catalog governance, addressed as
/Volumes/<catalog>/<schema>/<volume>. A volume can be external or managed, andWRITE VOLUMEorREAD VOLUMEdecide who may use it. - LIKE
Compares strings with a pattern that can contain the % and _ wildcards. Because it only understands character patterns, searching big volumes of text this way is much slower than using full-text search.
- Azure Hybrid Benefit
Licensing benefit that cuts Azure costs by reusing Windows Server or SQL Server licences with Software Assurance, or RHEL and SUSE subscriptions. Ubuntu isn't eligible, nor is the DTU purchasing model of Azure SQL.
Related terms
- Power BI Report Server
Lets organisations keep Power BI reports, Excel workbooks and paginated reports inside their own network, published through a web portal they host themselves. Content comes from a dedicated edition of Power BI Desktop, and licences come with P SKUs or with SQL Server Enterprise plus Software Assurance.