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 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 ...

In that example, SQL Server uses PolyBase to query data from an external HDFS data source. This article is going to look closer at the configuration of the three tools, SQL Server, PolyBase and Hadoop ...

Supporting this configuration allows PolyBase to connect and query Hadoop clusters that have wire encryption turned on. This enables a secure connection between Hadoop and SQL Server; as well as, ...

PolyBase uses external tables to access data in Azure blob storage. Since the data is not stored within SQL Data Warehouse, PolyBase handles authentication to the external data by using a ...

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 ...

SQL Server 2016 introduces substantial new capabilities that promise to advance organizations to manage data for business intelligence and analytics.

Hekaton, Microsoft's coming in-memory database engine, will be built into the next version of SQL Server. Meanwhile, SQL Server 2012 SP1 is now generally available.