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Michael J. Carey commented on ASTERIXDB-2900: --------------------------------------------- An example of such a feature can be found in the way that Neo4J handles its data loading: [https://neo4j.com/docs/cypher-manual/current/clauses/load-csv/.|https://neo4j.com/docs/cypher-manual/current/clauses/load-csv/] One could imagine maybe adding this as a SQL++ WITH-clause variant, as the WITH clause essentially introduces a temporary view with a local-to-a-query name - thereby avoiding the need to clutter the namespace/metadata of a dataverse and to have to explicitly define and then delete temporary views. > Temporary External Dataset > -------------------------- > > Key: ASTERIXDB-2900 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ASTERIXDB-2900 > Project: Apache AsterixDB > Issue Type: New Feature > Reporter: Gift Sinthong > Priority: Trivial > > Creating a temporary dataset that references data in an external data source > (e.g., local file, s3, hdfs). It would be nice to be able to interact with > external data but not having to drop that external dataset afterward. -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)