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luis_quiroz
2 years agoFrequent Visitor
[Fabric] How can I load incremental data from a PostgreSQL database using Dataflows or Data Factory?
I am currently working on loading a large database from PostgreSQL to several Lakehouses within a workspace. This is part of implementing the medallion lakehouse architecture, specifically the first ...
luis_quiroz
2 years agoFrequent Visitor
Thank you for the information. Unfortunately, it is not possible for us to implement this solution because several of our tables do not have a watermark. What we have found works best for loading data from PostgreSQL is using the WAL.
LuitwielerMSFT
2 years agoMicrosoft Employee
Not really an expert on the WAL of postgres, but would it make sense to try and leverage a native query within dataflow to the Postgresql WAL to discover what has changed and use that as an filter on the source data in combination with a append only data destination?