Update for SQL Server 2025: This post and the GitHub repo have been updated for SQL Server 2025 RC1 and Ubuntu 24.04. New in SQL Server 2025: You no longer need to install the PolyBase service to interact with Parquet files in S3. Previously, with SQL Server 2022, you had to build a custom container or manually install PolyBase. Now, S3 object integration and Parquet support work out-of-the-box! In this blog post, I’ve implemented two example environments for using SQL Server’s S3 object ...