Michael Armbrust, lead developer of Spark SQL at Databricks, Inc., agrees and has devoted much of his recent work to making it happen. Armbrust spoke to George Gilbert, host of theCUBE ...

In a variety of venues, the application of declarative programming practices and principles are starting to expand in ways that solve many long-standing frustrations with making technology work ...

Abstract: A declarative program describes what computation should be performed, without specifying how. Logic and functional programs are examples of declarative programming. However, most people ...

Databricks Inc. today announced the general availability of Delta Live Tables, which it claims is the first extract/transfer/load or ETL framework to use a declarative approach to building data pipeli ...

So can SQL—“The data set should contain all the records that meet conditions A and B and C.” Declarative approaches to network automation take a lot of the burden of programming off network ...

U-SQL scripting, code behind programming and assembly handling Azure Data Lake Analytics U-SQL job submission, execution and job status monitoring U-SQL local run and local debug in Windows Azure Data ...

The power of SQL. Let’s review the power of SQL by supposing that it doesn’t exist: there is no declarative language for working with data. Instead, we have to work imperatively.