tAzureStorageOutputTable Standard properties - 7.3

Property Type

Select the way the connection details will be set.

• Built-In: The connection details will be set locally for this component. You need to specify the values for all related connection properties manually.

• Repository: The connection details stored centrally in Repository > Metadata will be reused by this component. You need to click the [...] button next to it and in the pop-up Repository Content dialog box, select the connection details to be reused, and all related connection properties will be automatically filled in.

This property is not available when other connection component is selected from the Connection Component drop-down list.

Select the component whose connection details will be used to set up the connection to Azure storage from the drop-down list.

Enter the name of the storage account you need to access. A storage account name can be found in the Storage accounts dashboard of the Microsoft Azure Storage system to be used. Ensure that the administrator of the system has granted you the appropriate access permissions to this storage account.

Authentication type

Set the authentication type for connecting to Microsoft Azure Blob storage. Two options are provided: Basic and Azure Active Directory.

• Basic: Select this option if you want to access Microsoft Azure Blob storage using your storage account access key or a shared access signature. See Configuring Azure Storage connection strings and Using shared access signatures (SAS) for related information.
• Azure Active Directory: Select this option to access Microsoft Azure Blob storage using your Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) credentials. See Authorize access to blobs and queues using Azure Active Directory for related information.

Account Key

Enter the key associated with the storage account you need to access. Two keys are available for each account and by default, either of them can be used for this access. Select the component whose connection details will be used to set up the connection to Azure storage from the drop-down list.

This option is available if you select Basic from the Authentication type drop-down list.

Protocol

Select the protocol for this connection to be created.

This option is available if you select Basic from the Authentication type drop-down list.

Use Azure Shared Access Signature

Select this check box to use a shared access signature (SAS) to access the storage resources without need for the account key. For more information, see Using Shared Access Signatures (SAS).

In the Azure Shared Access Signature field displayed, enter your account SAS URL between double quotation marks. You can get the SAS URL for each allowed service on Microsoft Azure portal after generating SAS. The SAS URL format is https://<$storagename>.<$service>.core.windows.net/<$sastoken>, where <$storagename> is the storage account name, <$service> is the allowed service name (blob, file, queue or table), and <$sastoken> is the SAS token value. For more information, see Constructing the Account SAS URI.

Note that the SAS has valid period, you can set the start time at which the SAS becomes valid and the expiry time after which the SAS is no longer valid when generating it, and you need to make sure your SAS is still valid when running your Job.

This option is available if you select Basic from the Authentication type drop-down list.

Tenant ID

Enter the ID of the Azure AD tenant. See Acquire a token from Azure AD for authorizing requests from a client application for related information.

This option is available if you select Azure Active Directory from the Authentication type drop-down list.

Client ID

Enter the client ID of your application. See Acquire a token from Azure AD for authorizing requests from a client application for related information.

This option is available if you select Azure Active Directory from the Authentication type drop-down list.

Client Secret

Enter the client secret of your application. See Acquire a token from Azure AD for authorizing requests from a client application for related information.

This option is available if you select Azure Active Directory from the Authentication type drop-down list.

Specify the name of the table into which the entities will be written.

A schema is a row description. It defines the number of fields (columns) to be processed and passed on to the next component. When you create a Spark Job, avoid the reserved word line when naming the fields.

• Built-In: You create and store the schema locally for this component only.

• Repository: You have already created the schema and stored it in the Repository. You can reuse it in various projects and Job designs.

Click Edit schema to make changes to the schema. If the current schema is of the Repository type, three options are available:

• View schema: choose this option to view the schema only.

• Change to built-in property: choose this option to change the schema to Built-in for local changes.

• Update repository connection: choose this option to change the schema stored in the repository and decide whether to propagate the changes to all the Jobs upon completion. If you just want to propagate the changes to the current Job, you can select No upon completion and choose this schema metadata again in the Repository Content window.

Partition Key

Select the schema column that holds the partition key value from the drop-down list.

Row Key

Select the schema column that holds the row key value from the drop-down list.

Select an action to be performed on data of the table defined.

• Insert: insert a new entity into the table.
• Insert or replace: replace an existing entity or insert a new entity if it does not exist. When replace an entity, any properties from the previous entity will be removed if the new entity does not define them.
• Insert or merge: merge an existing entity or insert a new entity if it does not exist. When merge an entity, any properties from the previous entity will be retained if the new entity does not define or include them.
• Merge: update an existing entity without removing the property value of the previous entity if the new entity does not define its value.
• Replace: update an existing entity and remove the property value of the previous entity if the new entity does not define its value.
• Delete: delete an existing entity.

For performance reasons, the incoming data is processed in parallel and in random order. Therefore, it is not recommended to perform any order-sensitive data operation (for example, insert or replace) if there are duplicated rows in your data.

Select an operation to be performed on the table defined.

• Default: No operation is carried out.

• Drop and create table: The table is removed and created again.

• Create table: The table does not exist and gets created.

• Create table if does not exist: The table is created if it does not exist.

• Drop table if exist and create: The table is removed if it already exists and created again.

Select this check box to process the input entities in batch.

Note that the entities to be processed in batch should belong to the same partition group, which means, they should have the same partition key value.

Select the check box to stop the execution of the Job when an error occurs.

Complete this table to map the column name of the component schema with the property name of the Azure table entity if they are different.

• Schema column name: enter the column name of the component schema between double quotation marks.
• Entity property name: enter the property name of the Azure table entity between double quotation marks.

For example, if there are three schema columns CompanyID, EmployeeID, and EmployeeName that are used to feed the values for the PartitionKey, RowKey, and Name entity properties respectively, then you need to add the following rows for the mapping when writing data into the Azure table.

• the Schema column name cell with the value "CompanyID" and the Entity property name cell with the value "PartitionKey".
• the Schema column name cell with the value "EmployeeID" and the Entity property name cell with the value "RowKey".
• the Schema column name cell with the value "EmployeeName" and the Entity property name cell with the value "Name".

Select this check box to gather the Job processing metadata at the Job level as well as at each component level.

The number of rows processed. This is an After variable and it returns an integer.

The number of rows successfully processed. This is an After variable and it returns an integer.

The number of rows rejected. This is an After variable and it returns an integer.

The error message generated by the component when an error occurs. This is an After variable and it returns a string.

Usage rule

This component is usually used as an end component of a Job or subJob and it always needs an input link.