I have a requirement to trigger Azure Data Factory pipeline whenever there is a new record in a table. Is there any way to achieve this.
No, Event-based trigger only support Azure Blob Storage by now.
You can vote here to progress this feature in Azure Data Factory.
Currently it is not possible.
There is a similar discussion going on in the below thread :
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/197465/how-to-trigger-an-adf-based-on-any-data-changes-wi.html
While this is not currently supported, here's an idea on how to fake it. (Just sharing an idea, not sure whether this is feasible.)
Create a Trigger on INSERT
Trigger executes a Stored Procedure
Stored Procedure uses Polybase to create text file in Blob Storage with the relevant information (like new row ID).
Create a BlobCreated event trigger over that Storage location in ADF or Logic App.
Doing this should end up with an Event Trigger that fires whenever a new row is inserted.
We can use logic app to trigger a pipeline based on a query that finds data inserted in past x minutes/seconds
There's no direct way to do this in ADF (yet). As others have pointed out, you can vote for the feature to be added and Microsoft might add it. But there's still a way to do this:
You can set up a Logic App. There's a really nice video tutorial on this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0sMIN4xMSY
You can set up a logic app to use a SQL database as the trigger, and then you can decide if you want to have it trigger based on something new created in a specific table or something modified in a specific table. You can then action the logic app to trigger the run of an Azure data factory pipeline. You can set the Logic App to check the table as often as you like, for example, every minute, 3 minutes or longer etc.
If you want an ADF pipeline to run every time a certain table is modified or row inserted, but the table in question is very large, you can reduce compute by creating a track changes table. Basically have another, very small table that logs changes and then use this table for the one the logic app monitors. This would make it faster and more efficient in such a case.
Give the video a watch.
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i am new to pre and post deployment
To understand this i came across this:
“”When databases are created or upgraded, data may need to be added, changed, or deleted. Moreover, certain actions may have to occur on the database before and/or after the process completes. Deployment scripts can be used to accomplish this.””
I want to understand how this exactly works with an example
https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertutorial/3006/working-with-pre-and-post-deployment-scripts/
As pointed out in the site, a good example of a post deployment step is insertion of seed data.
For instance, you create a new currency table as part of the schema migration step. Then you insert the most commonly used currencies (say USD, EUR, etc.) so that they don't have to be inserted with a manual step.
Another example of post deployment step is populating data for a newly added column. For example you add a new column called IsPremium to the Customers table and want to set all customers with a start date > 5 years as true. A post deployment script is good place to do that.
Similarly scripts that run before the migration go into pre-deployment scripts. One example is locking certain table to ensure that the migration script is run only once, or setting a flag to indicate a migration is in progress.
I am deleting row from a sheet, On a sheet I have daily job which needs to recognize the deleted records, I need a way to recognize them using smartsheet api or sdk..
Thanks in advance..
I don't believe this scenario (identifying deleted rows) is explicitly supported by the API at this time. Seems like you could still use the API to achieve your goal though, with a bit more work (code) on your part.
Your code would have to get the sheet data (i.e., all sheet rows) at a regular interval and save that data somewhere -- then each time job runs, get the sheet data again and compare that data to the data you saved the previous time the job ran (to identify any rows that had been deleted).
Edit 9/26: Added Webhooks info
Note that with the approach I've described above, any rows that had been added AND deleted during the interval between job runs would not be detected. If it's important to identify each and every time a row is deleted, a better (and much more efficient) approach would be to use Webhooks. By using webhooks, your application subscribes to notifications for a specified sheet, and then would receive a callback (HTTP POST) from Smartsheet any time the sheet changes. Your application would need to inspect the information in each callback it receives to identify 'deleted row' events (eventType = deleted and objectType = row).
A simple way to do this is to add a column with a checkmark named "delete" or something similar, then with automation you can move the row to another sheet when the flag is detected, the row will be removed from the original sheet, but you will have a record of the deleted row in a different sheet that you can read or do what ever you need to do, this will also prevent deletions by mistake and you can even restore the row back if you need to. I don't think you need much code to implement this solution.
Is there a way of knowing that a table's data has changed (insert/update/delete) without using a trigger on that table? Perhaps a global trigger to indicate changes on a table?
If you want notification of changes, you will need to add a trigger yourself. Firebird 3 added a new feature to simplify identifying changed rows, the pseudo-column RDB$RECORD_VERSION. This pseudo-column contains the transaction that created the current version of a row.
Alternatively, you could try and use the trace facility to monitor for changes, but that is not an out of the box solution, as you will need to write the necessary logic to parse the trace output (and take things like transaction commit/rollback into account).
I am implementing a pipeline to insert data updates from csv files to SQL DB. Plan is to first insert the data to temporary SQL table for validation and transformation, and then move processed data to actual SQL table. I would like to branch the pipeline execution depending on the validation result. If data is OK, it will be inserted to target SQL table. If there are fatal fails, insertion activity should be skipped.
Tried to find instructions / guidance but no success so far. Any ideas if pipeline activity supports conditional execution, e.g. based on some properties in input dataset?
It is possible now with Azure Data Factory ver 2.
Post execution our downstream activities can now be dependent on four possible outcomes as standard.
- On success
- On failure
- On completion
- On skip
Also, custom ‘if’ conditions will be available for branching based expressions.
Refer below links for more detail:-
https://www.purplefrogsystems.com/paul/2017/09/whats-new-in-azure-data-factory-version-2-adfv2/
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/tutorial-control-flow
The short answer is no.
I think its worth pointing out that ADF is just an orchestration tool to invoke other services. The current version can't do what you want because it does not have any of its own compute. Its not an SSIS data flow engine.
If you want this behaviour you'll need to code it into the SQL DB stored procedures with flags etc on the processed datasets.
Then maybe have some boiler plate code with a parameters that are passed from ADF to perform either the insert or update or divert operation.
Handy link for called stored procedure with params from ADF: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/data-factory-stored-proc-activity
Hope this helps.
Background:
We currently use WF 4 and the SQL Workflow Instance Store to persist our workflows at each bookmark. The first time a workflow is persisted, a new record is created in the table "System.Activities.DurableInstancing.InstancesTable". On each subsequent persist, existing records are deleted and a new record inserted.
Question:
How could you modify this behavior so that on each subsequent persist, a new record would be created in the instances table?
Notes:
You can create a custom instance store, but it is "non-trivial" to do so. Is there a way you could use the System.Activities.DurableInstancing.SqlWorkflowInstanceStore class, but customize this behavior?
The InstancesTable contains a record per workflow instance so having multiple records there for the same workflow instance would be very confusing at the very least.
It kind of sounds like you are trying to use the InstancesTable for tracking. If that is the case you should take a look at creating a TrackingParticipant instead.