Merge pull request #171490 from jovanpop-msft/patch-220

Added CosmosDB view

Author: PRMerger9

articles/synapse-analytics/sql/create-use-views.md

@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ The folder name in the `OPENROWSET` function (`yellow` in this example) that is
 
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-### JSON views
+## JSON views
 
 The views are the good choice if you need to do some additional processing on top of the result set that is fetched from the files. One example might be parsing JSON files where we need to apply the JSON functions to extract the values from the JSON documents:
 
@@ -144,6 +144,26 @@ from openrowset(
 
 The `OPENJSON` function parses each line from the JSONL file containing one JSON document per line in textual format.
 
+## CosmosDB view
+
+The views can be created on top of the Azure CosmosDB containers if the CosmosDB analytical storage is enabled on the container. CosmosDB account name, database name, and container name should be added as a part of the view, and the read-only access key should be placed in the database scoped credential that the view references.
+
+```sql
+CREATE DATABASE SCOPED CREDENTIAL MyCosmosDbAccountCredential
+WITH IDENTITY = 'SHARED ACCESS SIGNATURE', SECRET = 's5zarR2pT0JWH9k8roipnWxUYBegOuFGjJpSjGlR36y86cW0GQ6RaaG8kGjsRAQoWMw1QKTkkX8HQtFpJjC8Hg==';
+GO
+CREATE OR ALTER VIEW Ecdc
+AS SELECT *
+FROM OPENROWSET(
+      PROVIDER = 'CosmosDB',
+      CONNECTION = 'Account=synapselink-cosmosdb-sqlsample;Database=covid',
+      OBJECT = 'Ecdc',
+      CREDENTIAL = 'MyCosmosDbAccountCredential'
+    ) with ( date_rep varchar(20), cases bigint, geo_id varchar(6) ) as rows
+```
+
+Find more details about [querying CosmosDB containers using Synapse Link here](query-cosmos-db-analytical-store.md).
+
 ## Use a view
 
 You can use views in your queries the same way you use views in SQL Server queries.