https://community.databricks.com/t5/warehousing-analytics/is-it-possible-to-connect-dbsql-to-external-data-sources-like/m-p/20078#M384 <P>At the moment I’m pretty sure you’d need metastore tables pointing to the data on ADLS.&nbsp;See USING data_source section:&nbsp;<A href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/sql/language-manual/sql-ref-syntax-ddl-create-table-using#parameters" alt="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/sql/language-manual/sql-ref-syntax-ddl-create-table-using#parameters" target="_blank">https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/sql/language-manual/sql-ref-syntax-ddl-create-table-using#parameters</A></P><P></P><P></P> Fri, 25 Jun 2021 10:20:51 GMT User16826994223 2021-06-25T10:20:51Z https://community.databricks.com/t5/warehousing-analytics/is-it-possible-to-connect-dbsql-to-external-data-sources-like/m-p/20077#M383 Thu, 20 Mar 2025 17:00:16 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/warehousing-analytics/is-it-possible-to-connect-dbsql-to-external-data-sources-like/m-p/20077#M383 Anonymous 2025-03-20T17:00:16Z https://community.databricks.com/t5/warehousing-analytics/is-it-possible-to-connect-dbsql-to-external-data-sources-like/m-p/20078#M384 <P>At the moment I’m pretty sure you’d need metastore tables pointing to the data on ADLS.&nbsp;See USING data_source section:&nbsp;<A href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/sql/language-manual/sql-ref-syntax-ddl-create-table-using#parameters" alt="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/sql/language-manual/sql-ref-syntax-ddl-create-table-using#parameters" target="_blank">https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/sql/language-manual/sql-ref-syntax-ddl-create-table-using#parameters</A></P><P></P><P></P> Fri, 25 Jun 2021 10:20:51 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/warehousing-analytics/is-it-possible-to-connect-dbsql-to-external-data-sources-like/m-p/20078#M384 User16826994223 2021-06-25T10:20:51Z