The document presents an overview of Oakwood's capabilities in data virtualization and their partnership with Microsoft, focusing on SQL Server 2019. It explains data virtualization as an agile integration methodology that allows real-time data access without requiring extensive technical details, contrasting it with traditional ETL processes. The document also highlights the features, benefits, and potential drawbacks of data virtualization, as well as specific implementation guidelines and upcoming engagement opportunities.

1. Data Virtualization & SQL Server 2019
presented by: Matthew Bowers | Director – Data & Analytics

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4. What is Data Virtualization?
“Data virtualization is any approach to data management that allows an application to retrieve and
manipulate data without requiring technical details about the data, such as how it is formatted at
source, or where it is physically located, and can provide a single customer view of the overall data.”
Unlike the traditional extract, transform, load ("ETL") process, the data remains in place, and real-time
access is given to the source system for the data.
Data virtualization is a real-time, agile data integration methodology that provides a logical view of
the entire enterprise data without having to replicate them into a physical repository, which costs
time, money, and resources. It has been around for more than a decade and has matured over the
years into an enterprise use. The report notes that “…many implementations have moved from
single-use case deployments to more enterprise-wide strategies supporting multiple use cases….”
Forrester

6. Data Movement vs. Data Virtualization

7. Benefits of Data Virtualization Data Virtualization:
• Reduces the risk of data errors
• Reduces need of the workloads to move
data around that may never be used
• Reduced system workloads
• Enhanced performance and speed to access
data on a real time basis
• Significantly reduced development and
support time
• Increased governance
• Reduced storage costs
• It does not attempt to impose a single data
model on the data
• Allows for the integration of data from
multiple disparate sources, locations and
formats, without the need for data
replication or complete ETL/ELT
• Allows creation of a single “virtual” data
layer

8. Capabilities of Data Virtualization
Data Virtualization software may
provide many of the following
capabilities:
• Abstraction
• Virtualized Data Access
• Transformation
• Data Federation
• Data Delivery

9. Potential Drawbacks of Data
Virtualization
Data Virtualization has potential
drawbacks:
• May impact Operational Systems
response times
• Does not impose a heterogenous
data model
• Requires a defined governance
model to avoid budgeting issues
with shared services
• Not suitable for recording historic
snapshots of data for rolling
reporting (EDW)
• Change management can be
huge as all stakeholders need to
agree to changes

10. Not Always the Best Option
Data Virtualization is not a “be all
to end all” and should not be
used in certain use cases:
• Operational Systems or data stores
where response times are key critical
success factors
• When a heterogenous data model is
required
• Use case requiring the need to build
historical data snapshots
• When there is need for significant
data transformation or cleansing

11. Common Use Cases include:
• Virtual Data Warehouses
• Virtual Data Lakes
• Prototyping for physical integration
and defining the requirements and
architecture
• Vendor agnostic analytics data access
and semantic layer
• Developing a logical data warehouse
architecture
• Agile data preparation
• Virtual operational data store for
single application data
• Registry Style Master Data
Management
• Legacy System migration
Business Use Cases
https://simplicable.com/new/data-virtualization-vs-data-federation

12. Data federation is described by many as a
“type of data virtualization”. But with
subtle differences.
Data federation is typically a term used for
techniques that resemble virtual
databases, with strict data models.
Data Federation
Data virtualization is a term typically
used to describe a service that does not
impost a strict data model, while providing
a single pan of glass to the data.
https://simplicable.com/new/data-virtualization-vs-data-federation

13. Data Federation vs. Virtualization Data Federation:
• Virtual database(s)
• Provides a unified data model
• Accessing distributed data with
different data models
• Does impose a data model
Data Virtualization:
• A single interface or layer
• Accessing distributed data with
different data models
• Does not require a strict data model

14. The Microsoft Story
• Arguably one of the most eagerlyanticipatednewfeaturesofMicrosoftSQLServerinthenewreleaseofSQLServer2019,
isdatavirtualization
• SQLServer2016addedPolyBasethatprovidessomelimiteddatavirtualizationcapabilitiesagainstdatastoredinHadoopand
AzureBlobStorageandAzureDataLake
• In2019,thisfunctionalityhasbeenexpandedtoincludeSQLServer,Oracle,TeradataandMongoDB
• DatavirtualizationinSQLServer2019isaccomplishedusingsomesignificantenhancementsmadetoPolyBase,andtheuseof
anexternaltable
• For more information: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/polybase/polybase-
guide?view=sql-server-ver15

15. The Microsoft Story
• PolyBaseisusedtoconnecttonumerousdatasourcesandfileformats
• InadditiontoPolyBase,theotherfeaturesetrelatedtodatavirtualizationthatallowsforthecombinationoflargevolumesof
relationalandnon-relationaldata,isBigDataclusters
• SQLServer2019bigdataclusterswiththeenhancementstoPolyBaseactasavirtualdatalayertointegratestructuredand
unstructureddatafromacrosstheentiredataestate(SQLServer,AzureSQLDatabase,AzureSQLDataWarehouse,Azure
CosmosDB,MySQL,PostgreSQL,MongoDB,Oracle,Teradata,HDFS,BlobStorage,AzureDataLakeStore)usingfamiliar
programmingframeworksanddataanalysistools: (JamesSerra)
• YoucanvirtualizethedatainaSQLServerinstancesothatitcanbequeriedtherelikeanyothertableinSQLServer

16. ➢ Install and Configure SQL 2019

17. Install & Configure: SQL Server 2019

18. Install & Configure: SQL Server 2019

19. Install & Configure: SQL Server 2019

20. Install & Configure
Ensure you select the PolyBase feature during installation

21. Install & Configure
Ensure the SQL Server PolyPase Data movement service and SQL Server PolyBase
Engine service are both enabled and running (SQL Server Configuration Manager)

22. Install & Configure
Enable TCIP in Protocols for MSSQLSERVER
Under SQL Server Configuration Manager (if not enabled)
Restart the SQL Service (only if was not enabled and you enable it)

23. Install & Configure
Download and install Azure Data Studio

24. Install & Configure
Launch Azure Data Studio
Connect to your SQL Server instance
Configure the PolyBase services

25. Install & Configure
Launch Azure Data Studio
Go to extensions
Install External data wizards
(Data Virtualization)

26. Create an External Table
Two Methods:
• Both involve the use of Azure Data
Studio
• Manual creation using T-SQL
command
• Use of “Create External Table Wizard”

27. Create an External Table
Two Methods:
• Both involve the use of Azure Data
Studio
• Manual creation using T-SQL
command
• Use of “Create External Table Wizard”

28. Create External Table

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34. Questions

35. What’s Next?
• Onsite Lunch and Learn
• Demo Session
• MTC Architecture Design Session
• Proof of Concept

36. THANK YOU!
Matthew Bowers
Director–DataandAnalytics
618.972.2152
mbowers@oakwoodsys.com
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