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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 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 ...

In my last article, I told you a bit about Microsoft’s overall big data strategy in SQL Server 2014 (which has just become available to customers) with a deep dive ...