Merge pull request #31214 from devmaven/patch-1

updated limitation on partitioning with custom column

Author: GitHubber17

articles/stream-analytics/stream-analytics-custom-path-patterns-blob-storage-output.md

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Custom field or input attributes improve downstream data-processing and reportin
 
 ### Partition key options
 
-The partition key, or column name, used to partition input data may contain alphanumeric characters with hyphens, underscores, and spaces. It is not possible to use nested fields as a partition key unless used in conjunction with aliases.
+The partition key, or column name, used to partition input data may contain alphanumeric characters with hyphens, underscores, and spaces. It is not possible to use nested fields as a partition key unless used in conjunction with aliases. The partition key must be NVARCHAR(MAX).
 
 ### Example
 
@@ -53,11 +53,11 @@ Notice that each record in the blob has a **client_id** column matching the fold
    * cluster1/{date}/{aFieldInMyData}  
    * cluster1/{time}/{aFieldInMyData}  
    * cluster1/{aFieldInMyData}  
-   * cluster1/{date}/{time}/{aFieldInMyData}  
-
+   * cluster1/{date}/{time}/{aFieldInMyData} 
+   
 2. Partition keys are case insensitive, so partition keys like "John" and "john" are equivalent. Also, expressions cannot be used as partition keys. For example, **{columnA + columnB}** does not work.  
 
-3. When an input stream consists of records with a partition key cardinality under 8000, the records will be appended to existing blobs and only create new blobs when necessary. If the cardinality is over 8000 there is no guarantee existing blobs will be written to and new blobs won't be created for an arbitrary number of records with the same partition key.  
+3. When an input stream consists of records with a partition key cardinality under 8000, the records will be appended to existing blobs and only create new blobs when necessary. If the cardinality is over 8000 there is no guarantee existing blobs will be written to and new blobs won't be created for an arbitrary number of records with the same partition key.
 
 ## Custom DateTime path patterns