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unfortunately KQL doesn't seem to have INSERT, UPDATE etc. support, it seems to be a pure query language for querying. Unless this strange different .insert syntax is what they intended for their language from the start? I don't know: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/kusto/management/data-inge...

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> unfortunately KQL doesn't seem to have INSERT, UPDATE etc.

(Disclaimer: I'm an engineer at Microsoft, and I use Kusto basically every day)

This seems to me to be a deliberate design choice. Microsoft doesn't want engineers mutating the databases by hand. There are mechanisms to do that (mostly outside of Kusto, and usually to resolve privacy incidents), but the common case of querying is not supposed to allow for arbitrary changes to the database.

Good question, I don’t know i’ve only used it for querying.

For SQL to Have a good/improved syntax for insert/update/delete/merge would be very nice (in theory)

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