Azure SQL bulk insert from blob storage failure: Referenced external data source "MyAzureBlobStorage" not found

Question

I keep getting this error ( Referenced external data source "MyAzureBlobStorage" not found. ) when loading csv from blob to Azure SQL. I am following this example and I set my blob to be public but the following just does not work:

CREATE EXTERNAL DATA SOURCE MyAzureBlobStorage
WITH ( TYPE = BLOB_STORAGE,
          LOCATION = 'https://test.blob.core.windows.net/test'
);
BULK INSERT SubscriberQueue
FROM 'inputs.csv'
WITH (DATA_SOURCE = 'MyAzureBlobStorage', FORMAT='CSV');

Any ideas what I am missing here?

Answer 1

If you want to bulk insert from Azure blob, please refer to following script

1. my csv file

1,Peter,Jackson,pjackson@hotmail.com
2,Jason,Smith,jsmith@gmail.com
3,Joe,Raasi,jraasi@hotmail.com

2. script

create table listcustomer
(id int, 
firstname varchar(60),
lastname varchar(60), 
email varchar(60))
Go


CREATE EXTERNAL DATA SOURCE MyAzureBlobStorage
WITH ( TYPE = BLOB_STORAGE,
          LOCATION = 'https://****.blob.core.windows.net/test'
);
Go

BULK INSERT listcustomer
FROM 'mycustomers.csv'
WITH (DATA_SOURCE = 'MyAzureBlobStorage', FORMAT='CSV');
Go

select * from listcustomer;