#u-sql

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The origins of U-SQL.

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U-SQL: A new language for Big Data.

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Azure’s U-SQL distributed query capabilities.

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Process any type of data. From analyzing BotNet attack patterns from security logs to extracting features from images and videos for machine learning, the language needs to enable you to work on any data. Use custom code easily to express your complex, often proprietary business algorithms. The example scenarios above may all require custom processing that is often not easily expressed in standard query languages, ranging from user defined functions, to custom input and output formats. Scale efficiently to any size of data without you focusing on scale-out topologies, plumbing code, or limitations of a specific distributed infrastructure.

This is an interesting new but familiar language designed for large scale data.