Sorry if this is a bit vague or rambly, I'm still getting to grips with Data Factory and a lot of it seems a bit obtuse...
What I want to do is query my Cosmos Database for a list of Ids of records that need to be updated. For each of these records, I want to call a REST API using the Id (i.e. /Record/{Id}/Details)
I've created a Data Flow that took a string as a parameter and then called the REST API fine.
I then made a pipeline using a Lookup with a query (select c.RecordId from c where...) and pass that into a ForEach with items set to #activity('Lookup1').output.value
I then setup the Activity of the ForEach to my Data flow. From research, I think I'm supposed to set the Parameter value to "#item().RecordId", but that gives an error "parameter [name] does not match parameter type 'string'".
I can change the type of the parameter to any (and use toString([parameter]) to cast it ) and then when I try and debug it passes the parameter in, but it gives an error of "Job failed due to reason: at (Line 2/Col 14): Datatype any not found".
I'm not sure what the solution is. Is there a way to cast the result of the lookup to an integer or string? Is there a way to narrow an any down? Is there a better way than toString() that would work? Is there a better way than ForEach?
I tried to reproduce similar scenario what you are trying.
My sample data in cosmos
To query Cosmos Database for a list of Ids and call a REST API using the Id For each of these records.
First, I took Lookup activity in data factory and selected the id's where the last_name is Bluth
Its output and settings are as below:
Then I passed the output of lookup activity to For-each activity.
Then inside for each activity I created Dataflow activity and for that DataSource I gave the source as Rest API. My Rest API to call specific user is https://reqres.in/api/users/2 I gave base URL as https://reqres.in/api/users.
Then I created parameter called demoId as datatype string and in relative URL I gave that dynamic value as #dataset().demoId
After this I gave value source parameter as #item().id as after https://reqres.in/api/users there is only id should be provided to get data in you case you can try Record/#{item().id}/Details.
For each id it is successfully passing id to rest API and fetching data:
Using a lookup activity in ADF to get list of tables that I want to output to Databricks notebook which will be used to run the code.
For Loop Object dynamic content #activity('Lookup IngestionControl').output.value
The error I'm getting is
The value type in key 'TABLENAME' is not expected type 'System.String'
Attempted Solution: #String(activity('Lookup IngestionControl').output.value)
Warning: Expression of type: 'String' does not match the field: 'items'
Ran it with the warning and get an error because the object is type array and cannot be converted to a string
You can only pass a string into the databricks API. ADF uses the databricks jobs API when it calls a notebook / jar.
https://docs.databricks.com/dev-tools/api/latest/jobs.html
What i usually do is convert the array into a json string. Can do this in SQL or in ADF doesnt really matter. Depending on which one you are trying to do would change how i would do it.
#activity('Lookup IngestionControl').output.value tells me its a Lookup activity. I would just create the json from sql and pass it through ADF and into your notebook.
I'm trying to do a simple incremental update from an on-prem database as source to Azure SQL database based on a varchar column called "RP" in On-Prem database that contains "date+staticdescription" for example: "20210314MetroFactory"
1- I've created a Lookup activity called Lookup1 using a table created in Azure SQL Database and uses this Query
"Select RP from SubsetwatermarkTable"
2- I've created a Copy data activity where the source settings have this Query
"Select * from SourceDevSubsetTable WHERE RP NOT IN '#{activity('Lookup1').output.value}'"
When debugging -- I'm getting the error:
Failure type: User configuration issue
Details: Failure happened on 'Source' side.
'Type=System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException,Message=Incorrect syntax near
'[{"RP":"20210307_1Plant
1KAO"},{"RP":"20210314MetroFactory"},{"RP":"20210312MetroFactory"},{"RP":"20210312MetroFactory"},{"RP":"2'.,Source=.Net
SqlClient Data
Provider,SqlErrorNumber=102,Class=15,ErrorCode=-2146232060,State=1,Errors=[{Class=15,Number=102,State=1,Message=Incorrect
syntax near
'[{"RP":"20210311MetroFactory"},{"RP":"20210311MetroFactory"},{"RP":"202103140MetroFactory"},{"RP":"20210308MetroFactory"},{"RP":"2'.,},],'
Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong and how to fix it even if it requires creating more activities.
Note: There is no LastModifiedDate column in the table. Also I haven't yet created the StoredProcedure that will update the Lookup table when it is done with the incremental copy.
Steve is right as to why it is failling and the query you need in the Copy Data.
As he says, you want a comma-separated list of quoted values to use in your IN clause.
You can get this more easily though - from your Lookup directly using this query:-
select stuff(
(
select ','''+rp+''''
from subsetwatermarktable
for xml path('')
)
, 1, 1, ''
) as in_clause
The sub-query gets the comma separated list with quotes around each rp-value, but has a spurious comma at the start - the outer query with stuff removes this.
Now tick the First Row Only box on the Lookup and change your Copy Data source query to:
select *
from SourceDevSubsetTable
where rp not in (#{activity('lookup').output.firstRow.in_clause})
The result of #activity('Lookup1').output.value is an array like your error shows
[{"RP":"20210307_1Plant
1KAO"},{"RP":"20210314MetroFactory"},{"RP":"20210312MetroFactory"},{"RP":"20210312MetroFactory"},{"RP":"2'.,Source=.Net
SqlClient Data
Provider,SqlErrorNumber=102,Class=15,ErrorCode=-2146232060,State=1,Errors=[{Class=15,Number=102,State=1,Message=Incorrect
syntax near
'[{"RP":"20210311MetroFactory"},{"RP":"20210311MetroFactory"},{"RP":"202103140MetroFactory"},{"RP":"20210308MetroFactory"},{"RP":"2'.,},]
However, your SQL should be like this:Select * from SourceDevSubsetTable WHERE RP NOT IN ('20210307_1Plant 1KAO','20210314MetroFactory',...).
To achieve this in ADF, you need to do something like this:
create three variables like the following screenshot:
loop your result of #activity('Lookup1').output.value and append 'item().RP' to arrayvalues:
expression:#activity('Lookup1').output.value
expression:#concat(variables('apostrophe'),item().RP,variables('apostrophe'))
3.cast arrayvalues to string and add parentheses by Set variable activity
expression:#concat('(',join(variables('arrayvalues'),','),')')
4.copy to your Azure SQL database
expression:Select * from SourceDevSubsetTable WHERE RP NOT IN #{variables('stringvalues')}
I am trying to get the count of all records present in cosmos db in a lookup activity of azure data factory. I need this value to do a comparison with other value activity outputs.
The query I used is SELECT VALUE count(1) from c
When I try to preview the data after inserting this query I get an error saying
One or more errors occurred. Unable to cast object of type
'Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JValue' to type 'Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JObject'
as shown in the below image:
snapshot of my azure lookup activity settings
Could someone help me in resolving this error and if this is the limitation of azure data factory how can I get the count of all the rows of the cosmos db document using some other ways inside azure data factory?
I reproduce your issue on my side exactly.
I think the count result can't be mapped as normal JsonObject. As workaround,i think you could just use Azure Function Activity(Inside Azure Function method ,you could use SDK to execute any sql as you want) to output your desired result: {"number":10}.Then bind the Azure Function Activity with other activities in ADF.
Here is contradiction right now:
The query sql outputs a scalar array,not other things like jsonObject,or even jsonstring.
However, ADF Look Up Activity only accepts JObject,not JValue. I can't use any convert built-in function here because the query sql need to be produced with correct syntax anyway. I already submitted a ticket to MS support team,but get no luck with this limitation.
I also tried select count(1) as num from c which works in the cosmos db portal. But it still has limitation because the sql crosses partitions.
So,all i can do here is trying to explain the root cause of issue,but can't change the product behaviours.
2 rough ideas:
1.Try no-partitioned collection to execute above sql to produce json output.
2.If the count is not large,try to query columns from db and loop the result with ForEach Activity.
You can use:
select top 1 column from c order by column desc
I would like to write query to remote Azure SQL database.
I followed the tutorial via Query Data Source - Method 1
I was successful to run the query from tutorial:
#results1 =
SELECT *
FROM EXTERNAL MyAzureSQLDBDataSource EXECUTE #"SELECT ##SERVERNAME AS serverName, GETDATE() AS dayTime, DB_NAME() AS databaseName";
But...
I would like to update this query to following form:
DECLARE #queryA string = #"SELECT ##SERVERNAME AS serverName, GETDATE() AS dayTime, DB_NAME() AS databaseName";
#results2 =
SELECT *
FROM EXTERNAL MyAzureSQLDBDataSource EXECUTE #queryA;
I got an error
E_CSC_USER_SYNTAXERROR: syntax error. Expected one of: string-literal
Any idea why I cannot use query stored in string value?
In real query I need to dynamically create query based on parameters in where statement.
Thank you in advance
According to this article https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/mt621291.aspx you can provide only a literal, not a variable:
EXECUTE csharp_string_literal
The string literal contains a query
expression in the language supported by the remote data source. E.g.,
if the data source is an Azure SQL Database, then the query string
would be T-SQL.