@UttamKumar Thanks a lot.    Just another question on this. Are you aware of any performance degradation when the Parquet file is saved as Blob on ADSL Gen2 vs local/NFS mounted standard parquet. Also, a question on the ADSL2, what I understand is ADSL Gen1 used to directly support standard Parquet, so is that not the case with ADSL Gen2? Does that support parquet only as blob storage? ... View more

@UttamKumar , does this require that the Blob storage be hierarchical folder with NFS 3.0 protocol and CSI driver? Also is there a direct support to both read and write to parquet file , what I mean is parquet saved not as blob? ... View more

Can see that this is an old thread. But for the benefit of users browsing through this thread here is the answer https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Communities-Library/Using-Azure-Blob-Storage-for-sas7bdat-files-with-SAS-Viya-Part-1/ta-p/906563   ... View more