Example embodiments relate to parallelizing structured query language (SQL) on distributed file systems. In example embodiments, a subquery of a distributed file system is received from a query engine, where the subquery is one of multiple subqueries that are scheduled to execute on a cluster of server nodes. At this stage, a user defined function that comprises local, role-based functionality is executed, where the partitioned magic table triggers parallel execution of the user defined function. The execution of the UDF determines a sequence number based on a quantity of the cluster of server nodes and retrieve nonconsecutive chunks from a file of the distributed file system, where each of the nonconsecutive chunks is offset by the sequence number.