as part of :ticket:`3424` to allow disabling of the MSSQL dialect's
attempts to create aliases for schema-qualified tables, now defaults
to False; the old behavior is now disabled unless explicitly turned on.
fixes #3434

or other variable-length column type with unbounded length
by assigning the token ``"max"`` to the
length attribute of the string.   While using the ``"max"`` token
explicitly is supported by the SQL Server dialect, it isn't part
of the normal contract of the base string types, and instead the
length should just be left as None.   The dialect now assigns the
length to None on reflection of the type so that the type behaves
normally in other contexts.
fixes #3504

VARBINARY(max) for large text/binary types.  The MSSQL dialect will
now respect this based on version detection, as well as the new
``deprecate_large_types`` flag.
fixes #3039

anonymous bound parameter names within expressions, to match the
existing use of this value as the key when rendered in an INSERT
or UPDATE statement.   This allows :attr:`.Column.key` to be used
as a "substitute" string to work around a difficult column name
that doesn't translate well into a bound parameter name.   Note that
the paramstyle is configurable on :func:`.create_engine` in any case,
and most DBAPIs today support a named and positional style.
fixes #3245