{"active":true,"blog_title":"Announcing public preview of VARCHAR(MAX) and VARBINARY(MAX) types in Fabric Data Warehouse","blog_url":"https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-public-preview-of-varcharmax-and-varbinarymax-types-in-fabric-datawarehouse","feature_description":"Users can define columns with VARCHAR(MAX)/VARBINARY(MAX) types in Data warehouse to store string or binary data up to 1 MB. In SQL endpoint for the Lakehouse, the string types in Delta tables are represented as VARCHAR(MAX) without truncation to 8 KB. The performance differences between the queries that are working with VARCHAR(MAX) and VARCHAR(8000) types are minimized, which enables users to use large types without significant performance penalty.","feature_name":"VARCHAR(MAX)/VARBINARY(MAX) types","last_modified":"2024-10-31","product_id":"fa3a73cd-dcd6-ee11-9079-000d3a310f67","product_name":"Data Warehouse","release_date":"2024-10-31","release_item_id":"a0d659cf-d4fa-ee11-a1ff-000d3a340b2c","release_status":"Shipped","release_type":"Public preview"}