Microsoft Azure Blob Storage V3 Connector

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Microsoft Azure Blob Storage V3 targets in mappings

Microsoft Azure Blob Storage V3
targets in mappings

In a mapping, you can configure a Target transformation to represent a

Microsoft Azure Blob Storage V3

object.

The following table describes the

Microsoft Azure Blob Storage V3

target properties that you can configure in a Target transformation:

Property	Description
Connection	Name of the target connection. Select a target connection or click New Parameter to define a new parameter for the target connection.
Target Type	Target type. Select one of the following types: Single Object. Parameter. Select Parameter to define the target type when you configure the task.
Object	Name of the target object. You can select an existing object or create a new target at run time. When you select Create New at Runtime , enter a name and path for the target object and select the source fields that you want to use. By default, all source fields are used. The Path attribute is not applicable. The target name can contain alphanumeric characters. You can use only a period (.), an underscore (_), an at the rate sign (@), a dollar sign ($), and a percentage sign (%) special characters in the file name. You can use parameters defined in a parameter file in the target name.
Parameter	Select an existing parameter for the target object or click New Parameter to define a new parameter for the target object. The Parameter property appears only if you select Parameter as the target type.
Format	Specifies the file format that the Microsoft Azure Blob Storage V3 Connector uses to read data from Microsoft Azure Blob Storage. You can select the following file format types: Flat Avro Parquet JSON Default is None . You must select the Format Type as None to read binary files. For more information, see File formatting options.
Operation	Target operation. Select Insert . You can only insert data to a Microsoft Azure Blob Storage target.

The following table describes the Microsoft Azure Blob Storage V3 advanced target properties that you can configure in a Target transformation:

Property	Description
Number of concurrent connections to Blob Store	The number of concurrent connections to Blob Store to upload files. Default is 4.
Blob Name Override	Overrides the default file name. You must use this property when you want to write compressed blob files to Microsoft Azure Blob Storage.
Blob Container Override	Overrides the default container name. When you create a new target at the run time and select the blob container override property, the Secure Agent generates an empty header file in the container specified in the connection. When you specify the blob container override in the target, ensure that you specify the file that you want to write to the target in the blob name override property. When you generate the SAS token at the container-level, the default container name and the container name that you specify for the container override must be the same.
Compression Format	Compresses data when you write data to Microsoft Azure Blob Storage. You can compress the data in the following formats: None Deflate Gzip Bzip2 Lzo Snappy Default is None.
Write Strategy	Appends block to a blob, when you select append blob. Applicable to .csv files only.
Blob Type	Writes data to a block blob or an append blob.
Forward Rejected Rows	Not applicable.