There's a new buzzword on the loose, the data lake. At first glance, a data lake could be easily mistaken for a data warehouse. The two big data concepts have a common focus on analytics and they may, ...

Microsoft fills in the gaps on its Big Data offering with previews of its Azure Data Lake and Language Services, which includes the brand-new U-SQL language for crunching the incoming explosion of ...

On top of planned Azure Data Lake for large scale big data workloads, Microsoft will offer new Azure Data Lake Store and Azure Data Lake Analytics, powered by the new U-SQL language.

In delivering new services to its Azure Data Lake, Microsoft debuted a new query language known as U-SQL.

New extension fosters analytics of various types of data stored in the Azure Data Lake using U-SQL, a blend of declarative SQL and imperative C#.