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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PolyBase will also allow for the creation of special tables, but these will have a physical basis in files stored in the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). Because the data in these files will ...

The next version of the Microsoft flagship database promises to add dynamic extensions to Azure and real time links between structured and unstructured data. The next release of Microsoft SQL Server ...