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This article will introduce the problem, the reason and the fix related to a PolyBase issue when installing the SQL Server Developer Edition 2019.
This solution enables Azure SQL Database to directly access and read files from Azure Blob Storage using External REST Endpoints, bypassing the need for physical data loading. It leverages database-scoped credentials with a shared access signature (SAS) to securely virtualize external data access.
SQL Server 2016 introduces numerous features for enhanced database management, including Always Encryption for secure data storage, JSON support for data interchange, Row Level Security for access control, PolyBase for querying big data, Temporal Tables for versioning, Dynamic Data Masking for data privacy, and more.
We will see how to create an external data source in SQL Server 2016/2017 and then we will create an external table with Parquet file format. Later, we will push the data to the external table. Automatically, we get the data in our mapped Parquet file of Blob storage.
In this article you will learn about querying Unstructured Data from SQL Server using Polybase.
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