T-SQL statements supported for dedicated SQL pool in Azure Synapse Analytics

Links to the documentation for T-SQL statements supported in dedicated SQL pool.

Data Definition Language (DDL) statements

• ALTER DATABASE
• ALTER INDEX
• ALTER MATERIALIZED VIEW (preview)
• ALTER PROCEDURE
• ALTER SCHEMA
• ALTER TABLE
• CREATE COLUMNSTORE INDEX
• CREATE DATABASE
• CREATE DATABASE SCOPED CREDENTIAL
• CREATE EXTERNAL DATA SOURCE
• CREATE EXTERNAL FILE FORMAT
• CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE
• CREATE FUNCTION
• CREATE INDEX
• CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW AS SELECT (preview)
• CREATE PROCEDURE
• CREATE SCHEMA
• CREATE STATISTICS
• CREATE TABLE
• CREATE TABLE AS SELECT
• CREATE VIEW
• CREATE WORKLOAD CLASSIFIER
• DROP EXTERNAL DATA SOURCE
• DROP EXTERNAL FILE FORMAT
• DROP EXTERNAL TABLE
• DROP INDEX
• DROP PROCEDURE
• DROP STATISTICS
• DROP TABLE
• DROP SCHEMA
• DROP VIEW
• DROP WORKLOAD CLASSIFIER
• RENAME
• SET RESULT_SET_CACHING
• TRUNCATE TABLE
• UPDATE STATISTICS

Data Manipulation Language (DML) statements

• DELETE
• INSERT
• UPDATE

Database Console Commands

• DBCC DROPCLEANBUFFERS
• DBCC DROPRESULTSETCACHE (preview)
• DBCC FREEPROCCACHE
• DBCC SHRINKLOG
• DBCC PDW_SHOWEXECUTIONPLAN
• DBCC PDW_SHOWMATERIALIZEDVIEWOVERHEAD
• DBCC SHOWRESULTCACHESPACEUSED (preview)
• DBCC PDW_SHOWPARTITIONSTATS
• DBCC PDW_SHOWSPACEUSED
• DBCC SHOW_STATISTICS

Query statements

• SELECT
• WITH common_table_expression
• EXCEPT and INTERSECT
• EXPLAIN
• FROM
• Using PIVOT and UNPIVOT
• GROUP BY
• HAVING
• ORDER BY
• OPTION
• UNION
• WHERE
• TOP
• Aliasing
• Search condition
• Subqueries

Security statements

• Permissions:

  • GRANT
  • DENY
  • REVOKE

• ALTER AUTHORIZATION

• ALTER CERTIFICATE (preview)

• ALTER DATABASE ENCRYPTION KEY (preview)

• ALTER LOGIN

• ALTER MASTER KEY

• ALTER ROLE

• ALTER USER

• BACKUP CERTIFICATE (preview)

• CLOSE MASTER KEY

• CREATE CERTIFICATE (preview)

• CREATE DATABASE ENCRYPTION KEY (preview)

• CREATE LOGIN

• CREATE MASTER KEY

• CREATE ROLE

• CREATE USER

• DROP CERTIFICATE (preview)

• DROP DATABASE ENCRYPTION KEY

• DROP LOGIN

• DROP MASTER KEY

• DROP ROLE

• DROP USER

• OPEN MASTER KEY

Next steps

For more reference information, see T-SQL language elements in dedicated SQL pool, and System views in dedicated SQL pool.