Month: May 2016

• May 29, 2016

  Polybase Query Service and Hadoop – Welcome SQL Server 2016

  

  Introduction One of the coolest features of SQL Server 2016 is Polybase. Already available for Parallel Data Warehouse, this functionality is now integrated in SQL Server 2016 and allows to combine relational and non-relational data, for example, query data in Hadoop and join it with relational data, import external data into SQL Server or export…
• May 8, 2016

  My experience building Hadoop 2.7.1 on Windows Server 2012

  Introduction Building the Hadoop sources on windows could be cumbersome even when the official documentation states: “… building a Windows package from the sources is fairly straightforward”. There are several good resources containing the steps needed in order to successfully build a distribution. The most useful for me was this one: Hadoop 2.7.1 for Windows…