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Querying external data sources

Querying external data sources

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Querying external data sources

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- [Instructor] How do you query against external data sources? Well, if we take a look at this catalog explorer here, and we go to add, there's a section here where we can obviously add external data. That's one option. We can also integrate with native integrations as well. So this is probably one of the easier ways to get started with querying external resources is you could put some items inside of blob storage and you could then integrate that directly into your upload. Now, another thing you could do as well is you could have things in different databases like Cassandra, Snowflake System, JDBC, Kafka, Elastic Search, MongoDB Postgres, MySQL, even the DBFS itself. And now you also can talk to other sources as well, and including Google Drive, you could look at Salesforce. So there's a lot of different ways that we can actually add things inside from external sources. One thing I'll also mention is that we can…

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