# Configure External Data Source

**URL:** <https://community.stardog.com/t/configure-external-data-source/4591>\
**Category:** Stardog Cloud\
**Created:** [September 8, 2023, 4:26am UTC](https://community.stardog.com/t/configure-external-data-source/4591 "2023-09-08T04:26:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Badal\_Kumar\_Panda](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.stardog.com/badal_kumar_panda/32/1926_2.png) [@Badal\_Kumar\_Panda](https://community.stardog.com/u/Badal_Kumar_Panda)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2023, 4:26am UTC](https://community.stardog.com/t/configure-external-data-source/4591/1 "2023-09-08T04:26:08Z")

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I have a free cloud account of star dog where I am trying to create a virtual graph. I donot want to copy physical data to Stardog. And my physical data is present in Databricks DBFS in the form of tables. The databricks is a community edition instance.

How can I connect to the DBFS from stardog studio of cloud account ? Can you provide step by step process ?

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**Author:** ![PaulPlace](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.stardog.com/paulplace/32/1447_2.png) [@PaulPlace](https://community.stardog.com/u/PaulPlace)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2023, 11:00am UTC](https://community.stardog.com/t/configure-external-data-source/4591/2 "2023-09-08T11:00:32Z")

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Hello Badal, after you login to the Stardog Cloud Portal ([https://cloud.stardog.com/](https://cloud.stardog.com/)) and have created a Stardog Free Knowledge Graph Endpoint, you will see a card entitled "Quick Actions" in the lower left hand portion of the page. One of the links is to [Manage Databricks connections](https://cloud.stardog.com/databricks-partner-home). That link takes you to a page with instructions for setting up a [Databricks Partner Connection](https://www.databricks.com/partnerconnect).