{"id":199,"date":"2025-06-30T12:21:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T11:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bweissman.de\/?p=199"},"modified":"2025-07-04T12:23:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T11:23:19","slug":"june-24-2025-anthony-and-ben-talk-about-sql-server-2025-episode-7-reading-files-from-block-storage-without-polybase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bweissman.de\/index.php\/2025\/06\/30\/june-24-2025-anthony-and-ben-talk-about-sql-server-2025-episode-7-reading-files-from-block-storage-without-polybase\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony and Ben talk about SQL Server 2025 \u2013 Episode 7: Reading Files from Block Storage without PolyBase"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PolyBase was once the go-to for accessing external data, but not anymore. This episode demonstrates how you can query files on block storage <strong>natively<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What\u2019s Inside:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Reading Parquet, CSV, and Delta files without PolyBase<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mounting external storage and accessing it via T-SQL<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Performance tips and real-world demo<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Simplified setup for querying large datasets<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udd17 <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DyPSVW_7F3s\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PolyBase was once the go-to for accessing external data, but not anymore. This episode demonstrates how you can query files on block storage natively. What\u2019s Inside: \ud83d\udd17 Watch on YouTube<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bweissman.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bweissman.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bweissman.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bweissman.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bweissman.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bweissman.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202,"href":"https:\/\/www.bweissman.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bweissman.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bweissman.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bweissman.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}