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Polybase External Data Source To Hadoop

I take a look at connecting to a Hadoop cluster for Polybase:

There are a couple of things I want to point out here.  First, the Type is HADOOP, one of the three types currently available:  HADOOP (for Hadoop, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, and Azure Blob Storage), SHARD_MAP_MANAGER (for sharded Azure SQL Database Elastic Database queries), and RDBMS (for cross-database Elastic Database queries on Azure SQL Database).

Second, the Location is my name node on port 8020.  If you’re curious about how we figure that one out, go to Ambari (which, for me, is http://sandbox.hortonworks.com:8080) and go to HDFS and then Configs.  In the Advanced tab, you can see the name node:

There are different options available for different sources, but this post is focused on Hadoop.