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 ...

Note PolyBase supports Hadoop encryption zones starting with SQL Server 2016 SP1 CU7 and SQL Server 2017 CU3. If you are using PolyBase scale-out groups, all compute nodes must also be on a build that ...

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 ...

Polybase is a feature that is similar to linked servers but is even more tightly integrated into SQL Server. With Polybase, you can directly access tables in Oracle, MongoDB, Hadoop, and even sources ...

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 ...

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 ...