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 ...

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Adds a SQL Server instance as a compute node to a PolyBase group for scale-out computation. The SQL Server instance must have the [PolyBase](../polybase/polybase ...

If you haven't installed PolyBase, see [PolyBase installation](polybase-installation.md). Before you create a database scoped credential, the database must have a master key to protect the credential.

This post was authored by Casey Karst; Program Manager II; Data Systems. We are pleased to announce that PolyBase in SQL Server 2016 and later can connect to Hadoop ...