1. Microsoft Build 2016
2/27/2019 2:26 PM
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2. U-SQL 0-60: for Big Data with .NET
Matt Winkler
Group Program Manager, Big Microsoft

3. What is U-SQL?
Language designed to make big data programming easy, powerful and fun
Based on SCOPE, which powers Microsoft’s internal big data systems
Start with SQL
Add data flow constructs
Support schema on read, diverse sources
Simple extensibility with C#

4. Why U-SQL Existing code based approaches for Big Data
+ expressive, lots of control
- difficult to optimize, requires dev skills
Existing SQL based approaches to Big Data
+ familiarity of SQL, ability to massively optimize
- extensibility is very difficult

5. U-SQL, a simple and powerful language
Simple and familiar, easily extensible
Unifies declarative nature of SQL with expressive power of C#
Distributed query support for rapid experimentation over all different shape and sources of data
Familiar syntax to millions of .NET developers
Any SQL or .NET developers, over all data

6. Demo

7. Getting Started Install VS + Data Lake Tools for Visual Studio
File… New… U-SQL Project
Submit to Azure, or local
Have fun!