[v11.0.x] MSSQL: Add SQL_VARIANT converter and update test (#86469)

MSSQL: Add `SQL_VARIANT` converter and update test (#85823)

Add SQL_VARIANT converter and update test

(cherry picked from commit 420067a7e1)

Co-authored-by: Andreas Christou <andreas.christou@grafana.com>

pkg/tsdb/mssql/mssql.go

@@ -403,5 +403,20 @@ func (t *mssqlQueryResultTransformer) GetConverterList() []sqlutil.StringConvert
 				},
 			},
 		},
+		{
+			Name:           "handle SQL_VARIANT",
+			InputScanKind:  reflect.Pointer,
+			InputTypeName:  "SQL_VARIANT",
+			ConversionFunc: func(in *string) (*string, error) { return in, nil },
+			Replacer: &sqlutil.StringFieldReplacer{
+				OutputFieldType: data.FieldTypeNullableString,
+				ReplaceFunc: func(in *string) (any, error) {
+					if in == nil {
+						return nil, nil
+					}
+					return in, nil
+				},
+			},
+		},
 	}
 }

pkg/tsdb/mssql/mssql_test.go

@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@ func TestMSSQL(t *testing.T) {
 						c_datetimeoffset datetimeoffset,
 
 						c_uuid uniqueidentifier
+						c_sql_variant sql_variant
 					)
 				`
 
@@ -114,7 +115,7 @@ func TestMSSQL(t *testing.T) {
 					'char10', 'varchar10', 'text',
 					N'☺nchar12☺', N'☺nvarchar12☺', N'☺text☺',
 					CAST('%s' AS DATETIME), CAST('%s' AS DATETIME2), CAST('%s' AS SMALLDATETIME), CAST('%s' AS DATE), CAST('%s' AS TIME), SWITCHOFFSET(CAST('%s' AS DATETIMEOFFSET), '-07:00'),
-					CONVERT(uniqueidentifier, '%s')
+					CONVERT(uniqueidentifier, '%s'), 'test-sql-variant'
 		`, d, d2, d, d, d, d2, uuid)
 
 		_, err = db.Exec(sql)
@@ -170,6 +171,7 @@ func TestMSSQL(t *testing.T) {
 			require.Equal(t, dt2.In(time.FixedZone("UTC-7", int(-7*60*60))).Unix(), (*frames[0].Fields[22].At(0).(*time.Time)).Unix())
 
 			require.Equal(t, uuid, *frames[0].Fields[23].At(0).(*string))
+			require.Equal(t, "test-sql-variant", *frames[0].Fields[24].At(0).(*string))
 		})
 	})