Federation consists of a collection of all SQL Azure database instances that contain partitioned data having the same schema. The T-SQL script in "How to Create a Federation with Customers, Orders and ...

Other features of the new service include full-text search within databases, column-level access rights (something Microsoft also recently introduced for the regular Azure SQL databases), and real ...

Within the Azure portal query editor, Copilot for Azure SQL Database uses table and view names, column names, primary key, and foreign key metadata to generate T-SQL code.