Limitations for Stretch-enabled tables

If your table survives these limitations and you have enabled it for stretching, you should be aware of these additional constraints:

  • Uniqueness is not enforced for UNIQUE constraints and PRIMARY KEY constraints in the Azure table that contains the migrated data.
  • You cannot UPDATE or DELETE rows that have been migrated or rows that are eligible for migration in a Stretch-enabled table or in a view that includes Stretch-enabled tables.
  • You cannot INSERT rows into a Stretch-enabled table on a linked server.
  • You cannot create an index for a view that includes Stretch-enabled tables.
  • Filters on SQL Server indexes are not propagated to the remote table.

These limitations are not unexpected; the Azure portion ...

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