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The Guardian API Azure Synapse

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

How Datrise loads The Guardian API into Azure Synapse

Datrise syncs The Guardian API's records, events, and configuration objects 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

The Guardian API: SaaS or API data source for analytics and warehouse sync.

Azure Synapse: Microsoft analytics workspace with SQL pools.

How The Guardian API entities map to Azure Synapse

The Guardian API entityAzure Synapse objectNotes
recordsthe_guardian_api_recordsid PK · custom fields → NVARCHAR(MAX) JSON columns
eventsthe_guardian_api_eventsdatetime2 events
configuration objectsthe_guardian_api_configuration_objectsid PK · linked to the_guardian_api_records

FAQ

How does Datrise handle The Guardian API'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 The Guardian API 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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