Hugo Queiroz makes a connection:
Data Virtualization brings to Fabric SQL Database the same set of capabilities already available on Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance and SQL Server, customers can now use OPENROWSET and External Tables, with complete parity across SQL flavors, develop once deploy anywhere. Data Virtualization for Fabric SQL Databases directly supports Parquet and delimited text (CSV), but JSON files can also be read using functions like JSON_VALUE and OPENJSON.
This is currently in preview. Read on to see what’s in the preview.