Using Polybase, the Azure Data Warehouse (ADW) is able to access semi-structured data located in Azure blob storage (WASB) or, as this blog will cover, in Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS).
This is similar to how Apache Hive in Hadoop is able to use semi-structured data using SerDe‘s.
Polybase should be pointed to a directory containing a collection of same-structure files. These can be in further sub directories since Polybase will recursively descend and glob all the files under the directory. Continue reading “Access Data from Azure Data Lake Store using Polybase with Azure Data Warehouse”