CSV Source

CSV Source is a component that extracts data from a CSV file. You can either manually upload the CSV file when creating or editing a package or load it from a file storage service when the data flow runs.

CSV File

If you want to upload CSV manually, just select the CSV Source component and drag the CSV from an explorer window to your browser, to the drop here your file panel under Source CSV or click browse and open the necessary CSV file. Whenever necessary, you can edit the data flow and replace the uploaded CSV file with another one.

If you want to load your file from a file storage service, under CSV Source Type, select From storage service. Then select or create a file storage connection. Finally, in CSV File Path select the CSV file to use.

Other Options

Optionally, you can click more options and specify CSV file options. Note that Locale and Code page options are not available in the CSV Source component.

You can also use the Trim Whitespace setting to trim leading and trailing whitespaces from the data in CSV fields.

Columns

After you specified the source file, under Columns check the number of detected columns. If this number does not correspond to the number of columns in your file, make sure that the CSV options are specified correctly and that you selected the correct CSV file. For example, if only 1 column is detected, it usually means that incorrect CSV Separator is specified.

You can also review column names and rename columns by clicking Edit names and editing column names. The modified names will be used in data flow scope. Custom names are assigned to CSV file columns in the same order as in the CSV file, i.e. the first column name in the list is assigned to the first CSV file column, and so on. Customizing column name can be useful if the CSV file does not include header row with column names at all.