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ADF: (Un)parameterized Linked Services

Tom Lous 101 Reputation points
2020-10-02T11:53:20.68+00:00

I have 2 Linked Services: A Oracle DB service and an Azure Data Lake Service. The oracle service has parameter options and has fields that allow dynamic content. The Azure DataLake Gen 2 service has neither.
Why is this? How can I parameterize my Azure Data Lake services?

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  1. Tom Lous 101 Reputation points
    2020-10-05T06:55:03.177+00:00

    Actually the parameter / dynamic content UI that works only for a few types. I found that editing the json allows it for other types as well

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  1. Evgeny Grishchenko 486 Reputation points
    2020-10-04T09:26:54.613+00:00

    Hi @Tom Lous ,

    You could define and use parameters for the sink dataset, which uses your DataLake Gen2 service.

    For example, if you sinking using parquet format into your datalake storage...

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