What is best way to extract Qliksense QVD data using ADF?

Question

Hi,

We have old application where historic data is stored into Qliksense QVD. We want to migrate that using ADF.
Do we have any ADF connectors or what's the best way of doing it ?

I know one way of doing it is generating CSV files and then reading from ADF, but please help if there is any other possible method.

Thank you in advance!

Regards,
Jyoti Pawar

Answer 1

Hello @Jyoti ,

Thanks for the question and using MS Q&A platform.

ADF doesn't have out of box connectors for Qliksense. Hence you will have to take the approach of exporting the Qliksense data to one of ADF supported datastores and migrate it.

The other options I could think of is if Qliksense have REST APIs then you could utilize ADF REST connector for data migration. For more info about ADF REST Connector please refer to this doc: Copy and transform data from and to a REST endpoint by using Azure Data Factory

Also, in order to move data to/from a data store that the ADF service does not support, or to transform/process data in a way that isn't supported by the ADF service, you can create a Custom activity with your own data movement or transformation logic and use the activity in a pipeline. For more info about the Custom activity please refer to this document: Use custom activities in an Azure Data Factory or Azure Synapse Analytics pipeline

And if you have any additional feedback or feature request related to ADF, we recommend you to please log them in IDEAS Forum here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/transform-data-using-custom-activity. All the feedback shared in the forum are actively monitored and reviewed by respective product owners. If you submit a feature request for the same, please do share the link here so that we can share it with internal team for further review.

Hope this will help. Please let us know if any further queries.

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