topic Fabric Data Factory Pipeline: Incremental load in Pipelines

Fabric Data Factory Pipeline: Incremental load

waltheed — Wed, 31 May 2023 20:09:50 GMT

How can I create an incremental load in Data Factory Pipeline?

I only see the Table Actions append or overwrite. But I want to be able to add new rows, update existing ones and mark deleted rows. I would expect that you can tell the wizard what the PK columns are and that this logic is created for you.

Is there a way to do this now? Or is this a feature that is coming later on?

Many thanks!

Re: Fabric Data Factory Pipeline: Incremental load

miguel — Wed, 31 May 2023 20:15:25 GMT

Hey!

At the moment, we don't have an incremental refresh feature in the same way that Dataflows Gen1 have them in something like Power BI. We are internally tracking this and I've also created an idea so you can vote for it and help us prioritize it:

https://ideas.fabric.microsoft.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=4814b098-efff-ed11-a81c-6045bdb98602

There are some alternatives or different approaches to incremental refresh depending on what logic your incremental refresh should follow by leveraging the existing capabilities with pipelines (for the orchestration component) and the output destinations using either an Append method or loading to a staging table and then running any sort of scripts that you'd like to run to make the incremental refresh happen through a notebook.

Re: Fabric Data Factory Pipeline: Incremental load

ajarora — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 21:53:34 GMT

Your table action options imply that you are using pipelines. If so, good news, we have just added a new feature that allows you to "upsert" the new rows into existing tables instead of append/overwrite only.

Its in private preview, please ping me with your workspace id, and we can enable it for you along with instructions. cc makromer

Re: Fabric Data Factory Pipeline: Incremental load

sergs — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 20:20:44 GMT

I've pm'ed you our workspacec id. Would you be able to enable the preview feature? We're evaluating different options at the moment and it's one of the requirements to have incremental load.

Thanks!

Re: Fabric Data Factory Pipeline: Incremental load

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 06:52:10 GMT

Hi ajarora,

Thanks for providing the information! I have a question about using Data Factory pipelines to upsert data from an on-premise SQL Server incrementally. Is there a method available for doing this?

I've managed to establish a connection through our Gateway to the Server and would like to use the DF Copy activity to query data and upsert it into a Datalakehouse delta table. However, I'm not seeing the created connection in the Copy activity wizard. Is there something I might be missing?

On the other hand, I can connect to it using Dataflows Gen2, apply a filter, and then use the Datalakehouse as the destination for data in append mode. The problem is, I'm not quite sure how to query only new records without loading the entire table initially.

Do you know if there's a recommended method to achieve this? Especially now during the preview period of Fabric, I'd appreciate any guidance you might have.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Re: Fabric Data Factory Pipeline: Incremental load

amolt — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 12:53:41 GMT

Hi ajora,

When will this action be available outside the private preview?

thanks

Re: Fabric Data Factory Pipeline: Incremental load

ajarora — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 01:06:14 GMT

Unfortunately currently Gateway based connections are not supported in Pipelines. We are actively working on it. Until then, if you can use dataflows to stage your onprem data to a cloud store (say SQLDb) then use copy to UPSERT it to LH table, that would be a workaround.

Re: Fabric Data Factory Pipeline: Incremental load

cw88 — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 08:43:38 GMT

hi,
is it already known when the function will be generally available? I also need this function.

Thanks!

Re: Fabric Data Factory Pipeline: Incremental load

MonztaInc — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 14:40:28 GMT

Hi ajarora

Is this still in Private Preview or is it in the GA as well?

Re: Fabric Data Factory Pipeline: Incremental load

DiegoPLAB — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 16:51:44 GMT

Hi ajarora,

do you know when this feature will be general available?

I would like to do upsert with copy data or dataflow instead of stored procedure.

Thanks.

Re: Fabric Data Factory Pipeline: Incremental load

matkvaid — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 16:43:10 GMT

Hi, is it still possible to try this feature? I have set up incremental refresh with stored procedures etc, but want to have that setup for first step from on prem sql to lakehouse, and would not want to recreate everything again or leave full refreshes for prepared data from lakehouse to warehouse 🙂

Re: Fabric Data Factory Pipeline: Incremental load

wgjunsay — Fri, 31 May 2024 22:37:09 GMT

Hello, is it possible to have this enabled for our capacity? It would help us a lot as we are planning on moving some of our enterprise data to Fabric from SQL DB.

Re: Fabric Data Factory Pipeline: Incremental load

cw88 — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 07:54:33 GMT

ajarora : do you know when the function will be available for everyone?