The Guardian API to Azure Synapse Integration
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 articles, sections, tags, contributors, publication dates, and headlines 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: Guardian article archive and section metadata.
Azure Synapse: Microsoft analytics workspace with SQL pools.
How The Guardian API entities map to Azure Synapse
| The Guardian API entity | Azure Synapse object | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| articles | the_guardian_api_articles | id PK · custom fields → NVARCHAR(MAX) JSON columns |
| sections | the_guardian_api_sections | id PK · linked to the_guardian_api_articles |
| tags | the_guardian_api_tags | id PK · linked to the_guardian_api_articles |
| contributors | the_guardian_api_contributors | id PK · linked to the_guardian_api_articles |
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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