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How to run SQL query on External Tables in Azure Data Explorer

michaelspector's avatar
Dec 25, 2019
As you probably already know ADX can process queries written in SQL (if you don't - you can learn about this feature here). A small addition shipped recently expands this support by allowing to query external tables (external data residing outside of Kusto cluster) using the same SQL dialect. A screenshot is worth a thousands words:
 
As you can see from the screenshot above external tables are recognized as database entities, just like regular tables!
Updated Jan 14, 2020
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