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aggiedan97
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Azure Synapse reading csv file

Referring to Youtube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOSzw40TohM) and attempting to utilze a csv file uploaded to Azure Blob/Gen2 datalake, and execute a SQL Script against a CSV file. Attempted many combinations to query but only returns the filename.

 

base query

SELECT
    TOP100 *
FROM
    OPENROWSET(
        FORMAT = 'CSV',
        FIELDTERMINATOR = ';',
        ROWTERMINATOR = '',
        PARSER_VERSION='2.0'
    ) AS [result]
 
Tried defining all the columns, data types, and data row start which should return 6 columns with 100k rows of data.
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Anonymous
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You can try to directly connect to this csv file from within Power BI. Open Power BI -> Get Data -> Azure -> Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2 -> Put the URL of the CSV and then sign in. This should be the easiest and most straight forward way.

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v-lionel-msft
Community Support
Community Support

Hi @aggiedan97 ,

 

OPENROWSET (Transact-SQL) - SQL Server | Microsoft Docs

Please refer to the link.

 

Best regards,
Lionel Chen

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