This book brings exciting coverage on establishing and managing data virtualization using polybase. This book teaches how to configure polybase on almost all relational and nonrelational databases. You will learn to set up the test environment for any tool or software instantly without hassle. You will practice how to design and build some of the high performing data warehousing solutions and that too in a few minutes of time.You will almost become an expert in connecting to all databases including hadoop, cassandra, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB and Oracle database. This book also brings exclusive coverage on how to build data clusters on Azure and using Azure Synapse Analytics. By the end of this book, you just don't administer the polybase for managing big data clusters but rather you learn to optimize and boost the performance for enabling data analytics and ease of data accessibility.