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Azure Synapse query to multiple JSON files in data lake, parse data into table format

I want to query RAW telemetry data stored in JSON format in my data lake. I am using Azure Synapse to query the files. I can successfully pull the data I want into a result table, but I struggle to ...
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Schema Drift & Delta Table update - cannot resolve `target.new_column` in UPDATE clause given columns [list of columns]

Using Azure Synapse Analytics, I have configured a pipeline and a Mapping Data Flow that were working great until I recently added a Derived Column to my Mapping Data Flow, which created a column that ...
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Generating MD5 Hash for NVARCHAR and VARCHAR columns across different databases

I am building a utility that generates a single MD5 hash across all CONCATENATED column values for any table row. To make this work, I have to eliminate NULL values using COALESCE and must CAST NUMBER ...
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Database Scoped Credential with User-Assigned Managed Identity possible?

We have a data lake (Azure Data Lake Gen 2) that contains single folders with data for specific use cases in the 'gold' container, e.g. for a financial dashboard (folder 1) or a production dashboard (...
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Dedicated SQL Pool In Azure - Cannot use System Views to calculate size for tables

I know that it's a repeated question but I've tried all solution and workaround suggested from every possible question present on stackoverflow.com I have inherited a dedicated SQL Pool with a SQL ...
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How to store LineString or Point data type in Azure Synapse?

I have JSON files that I need to store in Azure Synapse table. One record looks like this: { "type": "Feature", "properties": { "id": 12356}, "geometry&...
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Copy data from Data Lakes to Dedicated SQL Pool - Data Type overflow error

We have a synapse pipeline that copies data from Data Lakes (Parquet Files) to the Dedicated SQL Pool in Azure. The problem is that some of the Copy Data tasks fail with a "Arithmetic overflow ...
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Hash, Replication, and Round Robin Distributions - Need more clarification

I will give a few examples of the tables we have: Table1 - Most queries are State Code and Year, has about 1000 rows, will grow by 1000 rows a year, used Round Robin Table2 - Most queries are by ...
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Azure Dedicated SQL Pool - How to checksum a table?

We're moving all our on premise tables into the azure dedicated sql pool. We're using synapse workspace pipelines to import the data into the dedicated pool. Is there a way to checksum a table to ...
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Azure Dedicated SQL pool - group has db_datareader access but cannot login

We have created Test AD Group and they should have readonly access to the database (schemas and tables, views) in the Azure SQL dedicated pool. Our DBA team did it but the users in the Test AD Group ...
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How to rtrim the slash character (/)?

rtrim('txt/','/') What if we cannot use this version of the rtrim function.. How else to remove the trailing '/' from the end of a string (if present)?
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Accessing Secured Storage account from Synapse Notebook

We have a Firewalled storage account which has a few files that we need to access via Synapse notebook. We do that with below code : abfss_path = f'abfss://[email protected]....
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How do I change the database owner in Synapse Analytics Serverless SQL Pool?

I am working with Azure Synapse Serverless SQL Pool. A former employee created the databases in the pool, and is listed as their owner. Consequently, I cannot drop the login. I would like to change ...
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User can drop table from a schema, but cannot create one

In an Azure Synapse dedicated SQL pool I have the following setup: -- a custom DB role to manage privileges CREATE ROLE [owner]; -- there is a schema owned by this role CREATE SCHEMA [myschema] ...
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Synapse column store datetime encoding

I have a table in an Azure Synapse database. This table has a clustered columnstore index. It has a datetime column. The minimum value in this column is 2001-03-27 00:00:00 and the maximum is 2022-12-...
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Synapse Dedicated SQL Pool: temporary CREATE TABLE failed despite number of columns are well below the maximum limit

I am performing an UPSERT operation in a Synapse Dedicated SQL Pool. The TARGET table has 394 column and I am trying to update the TARGET with 5 Unique Keys. MERGE table_A AS TARGET using (SELECT &...
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Azure Synapse SQL Pool: Issue in MERGE INSERT UPDATE statement

I have a table in Azure Synapse Dedicated SQL POOL. CREATE TABLE table_A ( ID int IDENTITY(1,1), ClientID varchar(10), fitrstname varchar(20), lastname varchar(30), phone ...
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What are the limitations in Synapse Analytics compared to normal SQL Server?

I'm keen to get a list of the feature limitations or suprises when using Synapse Analytics (a.k.a. Dedicated SQL Pool, used to be known as SQL DW / SQL Data Warehouse) compared to using normal SQL ...
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How to retain same FLOAT value after converting it to a VARCHAR in Azure Synapse

Consider the following example: DROP TABLE dbo.TEST_FLOAT; CREATE TABLE dbo.TEST_FLOAT ( AMOUNT FLOAT ); INSERT INTO dbo.TEST_FLOAT (AMOUNT) VALUES (11546.25); SELECT AMOUNT, CAST(AMOUNT AS ...
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How to get queries executed in Synapse SQL?

I need to find all the query executed on my DB in last 1Hr in Synapse workspace with SQL pool. Will apply my logic on top of the result set. What's the right table/view to look for? sys....
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Azure Synapse - Need to have table access to View?

I've been trying to find information on this for quite some time but I couldn't find any confirmed results. I know that we can grant access to view without granting explicit access to the base table ...
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How are deadlocks detected by Synapse

I'm trying to produce a deadlock in Azure Synapse. I would have expected it to work much as on-prem SQL Server does given the documentation says it "applies to" Synapse. I've waited an ...
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Exactly-once FIFO queue in Synapse

Creating a queue table in SQL Server is a much-studied problem. However, I would like to implement one in Azure Synapse where many of the building blocks do not exists. Specifically no table hints (...
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How to run legacy SSIS packages with Azure Synapse

I would like to know how to run an SSIS package from Azure Synapse Studio or whether it's at all possible. Apparently there is no support for SSIS runtime in Synapse but I suppose there should be a ...
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Getting insight into partitions of a table in Azure Synapse (similar to SQL Server) [duplicate]

I'm using Dedicated SQL-Pools AKA Azure Synapse (which is different from serverless/on-demand Synapse that comes with Azure Synapse Analytics). And According to Azure: While the syntax of ...
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Resource overlap between Synapse databases

I have an Azure Synapse dedicated pool with a single database. It is scaled to DW500c which the documentation says means it has a single compute node. If I add a second database how does work against ...
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Create an Azure Synapse temp table from a SELECT with ORDER BY

I have the following statement that works when I omit the ORDER BY clause, or if I run it as a select and omit the create table part, but I need both to ensure my generated key is sequenced correctly ...
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Split intervals

I have two tables. Each holds some attributes for a business entity and the date range for which those attributes were valid. I want to combine these tables into one, matching rows on the common ...
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Getting error USE statement is not supported to switch between databases with Azure Synapse formerly SQLDW

Whenever I attempt to submit a query to Azure Synapse SQLDB (or try to do anything with the database from my application called DBForge) I get the following error message: USE statement is not ...
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