.alter table policy ingestionbatching command
Applies to: ✅ Microsoft Fabric ✅ Azure Data Explorer
Sets the table's ingestion batching policy to determine when data aggregation stops and a batch is sealed and ingested.
If the policy isn't set for a table, the database-level policy applies. If it isn't set as well, the default values apply.
Permissions
You must have at least Table Admin permissions to run this command.
Defaults and limits
See defaults and limits.
Syntax
.alter
table
[ DatabaseName.
]TableName policy
ingestionbatching
PolicyObject
.alter
tables
(
Table1 ,
Table2 [,
...])
policy
ingestionbatching
PolicyObject
Learn more about syntax conventions.
Parameters
Name | Type | Required | Description |
---|---|---|---|
TableName | string |
✔️ | The name of the table to alter. |
DatabaseName | string |
The name of the database. When you run the command from the database context that contains the table to alter, DatabaseName is not required. | |
PolicyObject | string |
✔️ | A serialized JSON policy object. See ingestion batching policy. |
Examples
The following command sets a batch ingress data time of 30 seconds, for 500 files, or 1 GB, whichever comes first.
.alter table MyDatabase.MyTable policy ingestionbatching
```
{
"MaximumBatchingTimeSpan" : "00:00:30",
"MaximumNumberOfItems" : 500,
"MaximumRawDataSizeMB": 1024
}
```
The following command sets a batch ingress data time of 1 minute, for 20 files, or 300 MB, whichever comes first.
.alter tables (MyTable1, MyTable2, MyTable3) policy ingestionbatching
```
{
"MaximumBatchingTimeSpan" : "00:01:00",
"MaximumNumberOfItems" : 20,
"MaximumRawDataSizeMB": 300
}
```
Note
If you don't specify all parameters of a PolicyObject, the unspecified parameters will be set to default values. For example, specifying only "MaximumBatchingTimeSpan" will result in "MaximumNumberOfItems" and "MaximumRawDataSizeMB" being set to default. To override only some parameters, use the alter-merge command command.