Access external data from Azure Synapse Analytics using Polybase

Learn how you can use Polybase technology in Azure Synapse to load data into your warehouse.

Adding a Database with Polybase External Tables to Always On Availability Group

Learn how to ensure your PolyBase objects are accessible from all nodes in an Availability Group.

Use Polybase to consume Oracle data from SQL Server on Linux 2019

Learn how to set up Polybase in containers to access an Oracle database.

Hadoop Connectivity

Configure Polybase

PolyBase in SQL Server 2019 – The End of ETL?

PolyBase has been around since 2016, but Microsoft is enhancing it in 2019 with the ability to connect to more data sources. You can now use PolyBase to connect to other SQL Server instances, and it’s easy to set up with a wizard. In this article Benjamin Weissman explains what’s new in PolyBase and walks you through setting it up and connecting to an external table.

PolyBase on Linux with CTP 2.5

The SQL Server team continues to make my day. The ...

PolyBase Revealed: SQL Server to SQL Server

Today I’m going to cover something I’ve been waiting to do for just about three years: use PolyBase to connect one SQL Server instance to another SQL Server instance....

Azure DWH part 14: PolyBase to access to Non relational data

In this article, we will learn how to work with PolyBase using Azure SQL DWH.

Introduction to PolyBase in SQL Server 2016 - Part 1

One of the features introduced in SQL Server 2016 is PolyBase. The goal of PolyBase is to make interacting with unstructured, semi-structured and non-relational data stored in Hadoop as easy as writing Transact-SQL statements. Edwin Sarmiento explains.