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create databricks external location on storage account


I am trying to create an externel location in azure databricks that point to a storage account (not a gen2 datalake)
I put this in the url
wasbs://[email protected]/
but I got this error 'url has invalid URI scheme wasbs. Valid URI schemes include s3, gs, s3n, r2, s3a, abfss'
Is there any work around?


Solution

  • No, in general Unity Catalog requires ADLS Gen 2, and don't work with Azure Blob - it's described in the documentation (1 and 2):

    External locations must use Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 storage accounts that have a hierarchical namespace.