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Mailchimp Azure Synapse

AI-first ETL from Mailchimp into Azure Synapse. Governed entities, incremental sync, typed landing tables.

How Datrise loads Mailchimp into Azure Synapse

Datrise syncs Mailchimp's audiences, campaigns, automations, subscribers, and engagement metrics into Azure Synapse as a typed table per source entity. Flexible or custom fields land in NVARCHAR(MAX) JSON columns, and timestamps such as created, updated, and status changes are typed as datetime2.

Sync is incremental: Datrise uses COPY into staging, then a MERGE on stable id, so re-runs update only what changed. Hash distribution on the join id with date partitioning on facts. Synapse dedicated pools reward good hash-distribution choices, so Datrise distributes on entity ids to avoid data-movement-heavy joins.

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Endpoints

Mailchimp: Email marketing platform with audiences and campaign analytics.

Azure Synapse: Microsoft analytics workspace with SQL pools.

How Mailchimp entities map to Azure Synapse

Mailchimp entityAzure Synapse objectNotes
audiencesmailchimp_audiencesid PK · custom fields → NVARCHAR(MAX) JSON columns
campaignsmailchimp_campaignsid PK · linked to mailchimp_audiences
automationsmailchimp_automationsid PK · linked to mailchimp_audiences
subscribersmailchimp_subscribersid PK · linked to mailchimp_audiences

FAQ

How does Datrise handle Mailchimp's custom fields in Azure Synapse?

Flexible values are stored as NVARCHAR(MAX) JSON columns, so new fields don't require a migration; strongly-typed fields — dates, numbers, and references — are promoted to native Azure Synapse types.

How does the Mailchimp to Azure Synapse sync stay up to date?

It runs incrementally — Datrise uses COPY into staging, then a MERGE on stable id.

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