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 ...
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 ...