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 ...

Learn how to remove database mirroring from a database by using SQL Server Management Studio or Transact-SQL in SQL Server. During a database mirroring session, connect to the principal server ...

In Object Explorer, connect to the server instance that hosts the secondary replica from which you want to remove one or more secondary databases, and expand the server tree.

PolyBase simplifies the process of reading from external data sources. It does so by enabling your SQL Server instance to process Transact-SQL (T-SQL) queries that access both external data and ...

Rather than increasing the size of a single node, SQL Server 2016 introduces PolyBase scale-out groups as a method of distributing a query across multiple SQL Server instances, enabling parallelized ...