Workday RaaS to Azure Synapse Integration

How Datrise loads Workday RaaS into Azure Synapse

Datrise syncs Workday RaaS's workers, organizations, job profiles, compensation records, absence records, and report rows 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

Workday RaaS: Workday HR reports delivered as a service.

Azure Synapse: Microsoft analytics workspace with SQL pools.

How Workday RaaS entities map to Azure Synapse

Workday RaaS entity	Azure Synapse object	Notes
workers	`workday_raas_workers`	id PK · custom fields → NVARCHAR(MAX) JSON columns
organizations	`workday_raas_organizations`	id PK · linked to workday_raas_workers
job profiles	`workday_raas_job_profiles`	id PK · linked to workday_raas_workers
compensation records	`workday_raas_compensation_records`	id PK · linked to workday_raas_workers

FAQ

How does Datrise handle Workday RaaS'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 Workday RaaS 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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