The article uses PolyBase on a SQL Server instance with Hadoop. PolyBase is suited for ad hoc queries of external tables and data import/export. PolyBase supports two Hadoop providers, Hortonworks ...

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 ...

The announcement was made at the PASS Summit, which is the de facto Microsoft-endorsed SQL Server conference, and one where database administrators (DBAs) dominate the audience. In presenting PolyBase ...

Use these demos to show basics of Polybase head and compute nodes and the execution lifecycle of an external table to HDFS files. Yout must go through this demo to setup Polybase to be able to run the ...

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