Add order Hints for Bulk Copy operations

[mobilebilly]

This pull request implements the feature request raised in December 2020 to add support for Order Hints in Bulk Copy operations. Although the change is minor, it can result in significant performance improvements if the data being imported is sorted according to the clustered index on the destination table.

[mobilebilly]

@microsoft-github-policy-service agree

[Jeffery-Wasty]

Hi @mobilebilly,

We'll review this PR. If accepted. the earliest we would expect this to be merged would be the 12.9 preview sometime in August.

[mobilebilly]

@Jeffery-Wasty , I am not familiar wtih the check in azure-pipelines, do I need to do anything to get them passed?

[Jeffery-Wasty]

@mobilebilly no, this is something we need to fix on our end, we're looking into it.

[atul-delphix]

@Jeffery-Wasty When can we expect this feature to be released ? It's long awaited now !!!

[Jeffery-Wasty]

@atul-delphix

It's tough to say. We haven't had the chance to look into this in greater detail, and would like to spend the appropriate amount of time reviewing, before releasing this into a preview. As a rough estimate, I don't think this will be included in a release this year, more likely this will come out in our first preview of 2025, but of course, this could change.