http://www2.sqlblog.com/blogs/buck_woody/archive/2012/12/04/using-hadooop-hdinsight-with-microsoft-two-ok-three-options.aspxMicrosoft has many tools for &ldquo;Big Data&rdquo;. In fact, you need many tools &ndash; there&rsquo;s no product called &ldquo;Big Data Solution&rdquo; in a shrink-wrapped box &ndash; if you find one, you probably shouldn&rsquo;t buy it. It&rsquo;senCommunityServer 2.1 SP2 (Build: 61129.1)http://www2.sqlblog.com/blogs/buck_woody/archive/2012/12/04/using-hadooop-hdinsight-with-microsoft-two-ok-three-options.aspx#46510Tue, 04 Dec 2012 16:51:37 GMT21093a07-8b3d-42db-8cbf-3350fcbf5496:46510jamiet<p>Hi Buck,</p> <p>Can you clarify &quot;run Pig or Hive statements against data that you have stored in Windows Azure&quot;. Specifically, what do you mean by &quot;data that you have stored in Windows Azure&quot;? To me, that can mean a number of things:</p> <p>-Azure Table Storage</p> <p>-Azure SQL DB (aka SQL Azure)</p> <p>-HDFS (that I assume is provided as part of HDInsight)</p> <p>-Something else</p> <p>Which is it?</p> <p>thanks</p> <p>JT</p> http://www2.sqlblog.com/blogs/buck_woody/archive/2012/12/04/using-hadooop-hdinsight-with-microsoft-two-ok-three-options.aspx#46513Tue, 04 Dec 2012 18:55:14 GMT21093a07-8b3d-42db-8cbf-3350fcbf5496:46513Buck Woody<p>JamieT - Azure Blob storage - then you can run the Pig command #fs -get to load it from those locations. </p>