Variant and Variant shredding are now generally available

GAJul 22, 2026VerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026

Variant is now generally available . Variant is a flexible data type for semi-structured data that delivers structured-like query performance through Variant shredding, which is also generally available.

SQL Streaming Governance Security Data integration

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