Full vs. Incremental Loads – Data Engineering with Fabric


The loading of data from a source system to target system has been well documented over the years. My first introduction to an Extract, Transform and Load program was DTS for SQL Server 7.0 in 1998.

In a data lake, we have a bronze quality zone that is supposed to represent the raw data in a delta file format. This might include versions of the files for auditing. In the silver quality zone, we have a single version of truth. The data is de-duplicated and cleaned up. How can we achieve these goals using the Apache Spark engine in Microsoft