Pattern - Basic 1:1

Description

Suitable for ingestion and basic 1:1 loads. Use when:

  • You are ingesting data or performing one-to-one loads.

  • You only need to perform basic single row transforms.

Layers: Generally Bronze

Data Flow Components:

Basic 1:1

No.

Component

Description

M / O

1

Input View

Input view created over the streaming source table. This view can optionally read from CDF if the source table is CDF enabled.

M

2

Flow

Append or Change flow to streaing target table.

M

3

Target Table

A streaming table, the schema of which is specified in the dataflowspec.

M

Feature Support

Supported

Not Supported

  • Append Only & SCD 1/2

  • Basic transforms such as:

    • Data type conversion

    • Concatenation

    • Single row calculations

    • Formatting

  • Cleansing & Data Quality Rules

  • Complex transforms

  • Joins

  • Multiple streaming sources

  • Window By

Sample

  • Bundle: dlt_framework/src/samples/bronze_sample

Example Data Flow

Day 1 Load

Day 2 Load

  • Source Table (Append-Only)

    CUSTOMER

    customer_id first_name last_name email load_timestamp
    1 John Doe john.doe@example.com 2023-01-01 10:00
    2 Jane Smith jane.smith@example.com 2023-01-01 10:00
    1 John Doe jdoe@example.com 2023-01-02 10:00
    3 Alice Green alice.green@example.com 2023-01-02 10:00
    4 Joe Bloggs joe.bloggs@example.com 2023-01-02 10:00
  • Target Table

    Append-Only Scenario

    customer_id first_name last_name email load_timestamp
    1 John Doe john.doe@example.com 2023-01-01 10:00
    2 Jane Smith jane.smith@example.com 2023-01-01 10:00
    1 John Doe jdoe@example.com 2023-01-02 10:00
    3 Alice Green alice.green@example.com 2023-01-02 10:00
    4 Joe Bloggs joe.bloggs@example.com 2023-01-02 10:00

    SCD1 Scenario

    customer_id first_name last_name email load_timestamp
    1 John Doe jdoe@example.com 2023-01-01 10:00
    2 Jane Smith jane.smith@example.com 2023-01-01 10:00
    3 Alice Green alice.green@example.com 2023-01-02 10:00
    4 Joe Bloggs joe.bloggs@example.com 2023-01-02 10:00

    SCD2 Scenario

    >
    customer_id first_name last_name email _START_AT _END_AT
    1 John Doe jdoe@example.com 2023-01-02 10:00 NULL
    1 John Doe john.doe@example.com 2023-01-01 10:00 2023-01-02 10:00
    2 Jane Smith jane.smith@example.com 2023-01-01 10:00 2023-01-02 10:00
    3 Alice Green alice.green@example.com 2023-01-01 10:00 NULL
    4 Joe Bloggs joe.bloggs@example.com 2023-01-01 10:00 NULL