Which feature in SQL Server and Azure Synapse Analytics lets you run T-SQL queries against external data stores and makes those external sources appear as tables in a SQL database?

description Reference for the CAST and CONVERT Transact-SQL functions. These functions convert expressions from one data type to another.

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