Rolf Tesmer shows us how to connect to Azure CosmosDB using a linked server:
Recently I had a requirement to combine data that I already had in SQL Server (2016)with JSON document data already stored in Azure CosmosDB. Both databases were operational and continuously accepting data so I didn’t want to go to the trouble of doing the delta load thing between them, instead I just wanted to be able to query directly on demand.
And so – the purpose of this article is to outline the method to connect direct to Azure CosmosDB from SQL Server using a SQL Linked Server.
Click through for the step-by-step details. Ultimately, it’s a linked server connecting via ODBC, so nothing magical—but it is nice to see interoperability.