With PolyBase in SQL Server 2016, the days of disjoint relational and semi-structured data are over. With the combination of PolyBase and T-SQL, users can query data stored in HDFS as if it is local ...

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 ...

PolyBase. New in SQL Server 2016. Integrates SQL Server with external data either in Hadoop or in Azure Blob storage. Azure SQL. Microsoft's SQL Server-as-a-service, low maintenance with the ...

Summary SQL Server 2016 offers a range of new features that transform information into insight and help your employees to make more decisive and strategic decisions, wherever they are. To learn more ...

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 SQL Server 2016 offers a performance-optimized implementation of PolyBase, which is faster than the 2014 implementation. This includes the ability to directly query Hadoop or Azure blob ...