Read two columns alone from an excel in Azure Data Factory

Question

I have my data in excel file and I am able to read the whole sheet. But I want to read only first column and third column. I have headers in the excel. So I need to read values from A2 and from C2.

I tried reading https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/format-excel . But unable to find a way. Any ways to read these two columns alone. Can any help me what values I have to specify in range. Many thanks!

Answer 1

Source file with 4 column

Select the column that you want from and Click om Insert Pivot table and grab the range

Then open the Source dataset and paste that range and preview the data.

Configure the sink and publish your pipeline. Hope, You got your answer.

Answer 2

Maybe this can be a workaround.

screenshot of dataflow:

1.create two source in dataflow,range of first source: A1:A5 ,another: C1:C5 (row num should be same)

2.create two SurrogateKey,give the key column,and start value should be same.

3.create join,setting like below:

4.create select,delete the column you don't need(sk),then you can do some transform or something else.

data preview: