Dealing with data sets that are on the terabyte or larger scale and have varying structure is a big challenge. It is a Big Data challenge which the new U-SQL language lets you solve efficiently and simply. You can leverage your existing SQL and .NET knowledge to ramp-up quickly into a world of distributed and parallelized processing. Learn the basic structure of U-SQL queries, including schema-on-read for streams, managing stream sets, and doing joins and aggregations. You also learn how to build custom code extensions for specialized aggregations using C#. We show you how familiar Microsoft Visual Studio tools can be used to start your big data projects. https://ignite.microsoft.com/