azure ADF Pipeline query

Question

How to write where clause in select query.

The below statement gives error for where clause, whats the syntax, I need to bring limited data from source table, please help

 "sqlReaderQuery": "$$Text.Format('Select OwningBusinessUnitName],[OwningTeam],[OwningTeamName],[StatusCodeName],[StateCodeName],[PriorityCode],[PriorityCodeName],[ActivityUrlLink],[Description] FROM Activities WHERE [CreatedOn] >= '216-02-01')"

Answer 1

Taking a look at the documentation and examples here , you need to escape the single quotes:

"SqlReaderQuery": "$$Text.Format('SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE StartDateTime = \\'{0:yyyyMMdd-HH}\\'', WindowStart)"

Note, it is double back-slash! (may be omitted here due to formatting) After all, you are editing a JSON where single quotes do have quite a meaning:

Answer 2

I had a complex sql query that had numerous single quotes. Escaping them with:

\\' 

didn't work. However, escaping them with \\' did work. Escaping using \\' is not correct from a JSON perspective, but that is what worked.