In SQL Server 2025, installing the PolyBase Query Service for External Data feature is not required to query Parquet, Delta, or CSV files on Azure Blob Storage, Azure Data Lake Storage, or ...
Applies to: SQL Server 2016 (13.x) and later versions Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Managed Instance SQL database in Microsoft Fabric Data virtualization lets you run Transact-SQL (T-SQL) queries over ...
SQL File Detection Tool analyzes data files and generates platform-aware T-SQL loading and external-table guidance. It supports local files, Amazon S3, and Azure Blob Storage through a CLI, a local ...
The sys.sp_get_table_health_metrics system stored procedure returns file-level storage health metrics for a Lakehouse table. The result set includes histogram distributions for file sizes, row counts, ...
The importance of automating processes can’t be overestimated. Most things start out as a manual procedure until you work out exactly how things should happen, but many times they stay that way ...
SQL Server is primarily built around a row-based table structure that connects related data elements in different tables to one another, avoiding the need to redundantly store data in multiple places ...
Polybase, Query Store, dynamic data masking, row-level security, and temporal data JSON support -- just some of the new features that veteran SQL Server Live! presenter Leonard Lobel covers in this ...