Creates an external file format object defining external data stored in Hadoop, Azure Blob Storage, Azure Data Lake Store, OneLake in Microsoft Fabric, or for the input and output streams associated ...

PolyBase, a data virtualization feature for SQL Server, allows users to seamlessly query data from various external sources directly using T-SQL (Transact-SQL) without the need for separate client ...

SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have. Here’s why Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and querying ...

Grants permissions on a schema. :::image type="icon" source="../../includes/media/topic-link-icon.svg" border="false"::: Transact-SQL syntax conventions Specifies a ...