In Azure Data Factory read excel files

Question

I am new to Azure Data Factory(ADF), I need to access/load excel files sitting in a blob into ADF but as ADF doesn't support excel format(supports tex/csv/json/.. only) is there a way to ingest excel files into ADF? I really appreciate if anybody could help!

Thanks.

Answer 1

ADF does not support reading from xls file yet.

You can find solutions in this answer: How to read files with.xlsx and.xls extension in Azure data factory?

Answer 2

ADF V2 now supports reading data from an Excel file, Here is the link to the article.

Hope this helps!

Answer 3

ADF now support Excel as a data source. You can read here

Answer 4

You are right, Azure Data Factory does not support to read .xlsx file, the workaround is to save your .xlsx file as a .csv file, I think it should work.

My .xlsx file:

Save as .csv file, the info will not change:

Preview Data in ADF:

Besides , if you want to just copy the .xlsx file, no need to convert it to .csv , you just need to choose the Binary Copy option.

Answer 5

If you're familiar with SSIS, you could simply use Excel Source in your SSIS package, and then run it on SSIS Integration Runtime using Execute SSIS Package activity in ADF pipeline.

Answer 6

An easier solution is to use a powerautomate flow to export an excel table as a CSV and trigger the datafactory process. The only issue is that an undocumented feature on power automate is that you need to use a fixed Excel file name as passing the name as a variable fails.