“The new Microsoft Azure Data Lake services for analytics in the cloud (bit.ly/1VcCkaH) includes a hyper-scale repository; a new analytics service built on YARN (bit.ly/1iS8xvP) that lets data ...

Azure Data Lake Store. In fact, ... The way you work with Data Lake Analytics is using U-SQL, a query language that’s a subset of T-SQL enhanced with temporal functions.

Microsoft introduces U-SQL query language; Cisco makes move into data preparation space; AMD makes commercial PC push with new Pro A-Series APUs; and there's more.

Ignite 2019: Microsoft has revved its Azure SQL Data Warehouse, re-branding it Synapse Analytics, and integrating Apache Spark, Azure Data Lake Storage and Azure Data Factory, with a unified Web ...

U-SQL is a special Microsoft variant of Structured Query Language that provides scalable distributed query capabilities. It combines declarative SQL with imperative C# to let developers process data ...

Microsoft has just added support for query hints to Azure SQL Database, giving database administrators a powerful tool to manage the performance of ISV application code. Here's how it works.

To query any SQL database from PowerShell, you need to have the SQLPS module installed along with a few supporting packages. I am going to be focusing on the SQL Server 2012 packages in this article.

Arcadia Data provides a search engine-style text box as its latest query interface, bringing BI natural language query to the data lake. Written by Andrew Brust, Contributor Sept. 4, 2018 at 6:00 ...

AI and data analytics company Databricks today announced the launch of SQL Analytics, a new service that makes it easier for data analysts to run their standard SQL queries directly on data lakes.