How to transform the excel file which doesn't have the column header in Azure Data Factory

Question

I am getting one excel file every day in the data lake. My requirement is to export the excel file into an SQL database using ADF. I have five sheets in the excel file. Among the five, I have one excel sheet that doesn't have one column header. I successfully exported all four sheets into the SQL database.

I stuck with the above one sheet which doesn't have a column header. Below is the data for this excel sheet

See, the first column doesn't have a header. When I tried to use copy activity, the schema is neglecting the first column as it doesn't have a header. When I untick the first row as a header, then it's recognised. However, I don't want to use this because the column header for other columns considers a row value which is difficult as everyday new excel file is getting added.

Any advice on how to address this issue? Tried a lot, with no success.

Answer 1

I tried to reproduce this issue. But initially I got below error.

ErrorCode=DelimitedTextColumnNameNotAllowNull,'Type=Microsoft.DataTransfer.Common.Shared.HybridDeliveryException,Message=The name of column index 1 is empty. Make sure column name is properly specified in the header row.,Source=Microsoft.DataTransfer.Common,'

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So I used DataFlow activity and resolved the issue.

Follow below steps.

Step1: Select Excel as Source.

Step2: Select transformation settings.

Step3: Execute Pipeline.

Data stored in SQL DB.