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U-SQL is a language that combines declarative SQL with imperative C# to let you process data at any scale. Through the scalable, distributed-query capability of U-SQL, you can efficiently analyze data ...

It’s refreshing to see Microsoft shed the last bits of its not-invented-here mentality and embrace new industry standards without conditions, like it did to Java 20 years ago. You see it rather ...

Earlier this year, Microsoft revealed plans to offer a new HDFS-compatible Hadoop File System data store that could run large analytics workloads called Azure Data Lake. So far, the technical preview ...