Convert one column with 500 records to 500 columns in Azure dataflows.

Question

Hello everyone!! I have file with one column and it has 500 records. I would like to convert each of the record to a column. That is I want to create a 500 column names from that file. I want to do this with Azure Synapse dataflow. Can some one please help on how to do that.

Answer 1

Hi anonymous user-6983 ,
Welcome to Microsoft Q&A platform and thankyou for posting your query.

As I understand your query here, you want to convert data from rows into columns . Please correct me if my understanding is wrong.

For this purpose, you can make use of Pivot transformation in ADF mapping dataflow which is used to create multiple columns from the unique row values of a single column. Pivot is an aggregation transformation where you select group by columns and generate pivot columns using aggregate functions.

Please refer to the following video for the implementation part:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozQYffvt2aI

Hope this will help. Please let us know if any further queries.

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