When to use AzureQueueSink - azure

Question

I am in the process of integrating an existing azure data factory project in my solution. While observing the data factory pipelines I saw that all the pipelines use SqlSource and the destination is AzureQueueSink.
The input datasets are
1. on-prem table
2. The output of a stored procedure
The output is an azure sql table.
Now I am confused as to when to use this AzureQueueSink I checked on google but I did not find any information regarding the use case for this.
Below is the sample pipeline activity.
{
"$schema": "http://datafactories.schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2015-09-01/Microsoft.DataFactory.Pipeline.json",
"name": "OnPremToAzureList",
"properties": {
"activities": [
{
"type": "SqlServerStoredProcedure",
"typeProperties": {
"storedProcedureName": "dbo.TruncateStgTable",
"storedProcedureParameters": { "TableName": "[dbo].[List]" }
},
"inputs": [
{
"name": "AzureSqlTableStart"
}
],
"outputs": [
{
"name": "AzureSqlTableTruncate"
}
],
"scheduler": {
"frequency": "Day",
"interval": 1
},
"name": "SPTruncateStgTable"
},
{
"name": "CopyActivityList",
"type": "Copy",
"inputs": [
{
"name": "OnPremList"
},
{
"name": "AzureSqlTableTruncate"
}
],
"outputs": [
{
"name": "AzureSqlTableList"
}
],
"typeProperties": {
"source": {
"type": "SqlSource",
"sqlReaderQuery": "select * from dbo.List"
},
"sink": {
"type": "AzureQueueSink",
"writeBatchSize": 1000,
"writeBatchTimeout": "00:30:00"
}
},
"policy": {
"concurrency": 1,
"executionPriorityOrder": "OldestFirst",
"retry": 1,
"timeout": "01:00:00"
},
"scheduler": {
"frequency": "Day",
"interval": 1
}
}
]
}
}
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Please do not use AzureQueueSink as copy into Azure Queue has not been shipped and we don't have any plan to bring it back. It's leaked into our Sdk/Schema by mistake :)
This sink type now gives you undeterministic behavior which happens to be working but that behavior is not to last too long.