Polybase, Query Store, dynamic data masking, row-level security, and temporal data JSON support -- just some of the new features that veteran SQL Server Live! presenter Leonard Lobel covers in this ...

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 2016 setup is very similar to the setup for previous versions. It has a few extra configuration steps and options — for example, to set up Microsoft R and the PolyBase Query Service ...

Conveniently, one of the other new features of SQL Server 2016 is Polybase, which allows direct connections to files stored in Hadoop or Azure Blob Storage.

Microsoft announced late last week that the final SQL Server 2016 release candidate is now available.

Earlier releases of SQL Server with PolyBase, ranging from SQL Server 2016 to SQL Server 2019, will continue supporting the feature set until EOL. Other PolyBase features like scale-up groups and data ...