DatriseAI-first ETL

Shopify Azure Synapse

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

How Datrise loads Shopify into Azure Synapse

Datrise syncs Shopify's orders, products, customers, inventory levels, and fulfillment events 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

Shopify: E-commerce platform for orders, catalog, and customer data.

Azure Synapse: Microsoft analytics workspace with SQL pools.

How Shopify entities map to Azure Synapse

Shopify entityAzure Synapse objectNotes
ordersshopify_ordersid PK · custom fields → NVARCHAR(MAX) JSON columns
productsshopify_productsid PK · linked to shopify_orders
customersshopify_customersid PK · linked to shopify_orders
inventory levelsshopify_inventory_levelsid PK · linked to shopify_orders

FAQ

How does Datrise handle Shopify'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 Shopify 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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