Developers have updated SQL’s syntax to make it a bit neater and easier to read, so it’s less jarring to shift gears between writing code for the browser and retrieving data. The creators of ...

Dive into data ... your data lake. As an example, you could address the need for a schema by creating a Hive metastore in ORC format. Once it’s set up, the metastore supports fast SQL queries ...

Microsoft fills in the gaps on its Big Data offering with previews of its Azure Data Lake and ... capacity, U-SQL can scale over very large files. There will be a demo by us later this week that shows ...