As part of the Azure Data Lake Analytics and U-SQL August 1st refresh, we released a couple of new, long awaited features, are fixing some confusing syntax and fixed several bugs:
- Pending and Upcoming Deprecations
- Start of Deprecation of old PARTITIONED BY Syntax
- DateTime file set pattern will require HH instead of hh for the hour pattern to align with 24h clock semantics
- Start of Deprecation of {col:*} File Set pattern
- Major U-SQL Bug Fixes
- Record-Boundary Alignment Bug is fixed
- Extractor input bytestream level properties provide correct information
- Improved error messages
- New U-SQL capabilities
- U-SQL supports a compile-time IF statement
- U-SQL built-in extractors now support skipping header rows (skipFirstNRows parameter)
- U-SQL now offers database level access control
- U-SQL is starting to increase the limit on files in file set extractors
- U-SQL now offers a preview of sampling capabilities
The following additional two new capabilities need to request access by sending email to usql microsoft.com.
You can find more details with examples in the August 1st release notes on our github site where you also can find our previous release notes.