If you specify LOCATION to be a folder, a PolyBase query that selects from the external table will retrieve files from the folder and all of its subfolders. Just like Hadoop, PolyBase doesn't return ...

Creates a login for SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, Azure Synapse Analytics, or Analytics Platform System databases. Choose one of the following tabs for the syntax, ...

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 ...

Developers love database programming tips, tricks, and workarounds—especially those that slash development time or boost application performance. Here's a collection of such nuggets for developing SQL ...