PolyBase, a data virtualization feature for SQL Server, allows users to seamlessly query data from various external sources directly using T-SQL (Transact-SQL) without the need for separate client ...

SQL Server 2017 containers for DevOps scenarios This post was authored by Tony Petrossian, Partner Group Program Manager, Database Systems Group SQL Server 2017 will bring with it support for the ...

description: The article explains how to use PolyBase on a SQL Server instance to query external data in S3-compatible object storage. Create external tables to reference the external data.

The Microsoft SQL Server PolyBase scale-out groups will be retired. Scale-out group functionality will be removed from the product in [!INCLUDE sssql22-md]. PolyBase data virtualization will continue ...

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PolyBase will be released in the first half of 2013, as part of the next version of SQL Server PDW and will integrate data in Hadoop's Distributed File System (HDFS) with the relational database ...

With the recently released SQL Server 2016, you can now use SQL queries against Hadoop and Azure blob storage. Not only do you no longer need to write map/reduce operations, you can also join ...