Posts Tagged ‘APS’

APS Polybase for Hadoop and Windows Azure Blob Storage (WASB) Integration (2015-6-24)

Introduction The Microsoft Analytics Platform System (APS) comes with a very powerful feature that’s called Polybase. Polybase has been introduced over 2.5 years ago and extended ever since to integrate the world of structured and unstructured data, either on-premise as well in the Microsoft Azure cloud. The concept is simple: within an APS database you […]

Restoring a database onto a larger APS (2014-12-23)

For benchmarking purposes I was restoring a backup taken on a 4 node APS onto an 8 node APS (Microsoft Analytics Platform System). And the unexpected happened; I started to receive warnings that the system was running low on available disk space! (For those of you who never worked with APS; an 8 node full […]