Azure SQL Snap Pack

Azure SQL Snap Pack

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Overview

Azure SQL is a SQL database native to the cloud. Use Snaps in this Snap Pack to load incoming data into Azure SQL Server.

Supported Versions

This Snap Pack is tested against Microsoft SQL Azure (RTM) v12.0.2000.8.

  • Product Level: RTM

  • Edition:  SQL Azure

  • Engine Edition: 5

  • Edition: SQL Azure

  • Major Version: 12

This Snap Pack supports the following:

  • SQL Server 2016

  • Azure SQL Enterprise Database Warehouse (EDW)

This Snap Pack uses the 11.2x driver by default. If you specify any specific driver, ensure that you provide a version higher than 9.1 that is compatible with the Microsoft Authentication Library for Java, because this Snap Pack uses the MSAL4J. Otherwise, you may encounter errors.

 



Snap Pack History

Release  Snap Pack Version Date Type Updates May 2026 main34730 Stable Updated and certified against the current SnapLogic Platform release. November 2025 443patches33822 Latest Enhanced the Azure SQL – Bulk Load Snap to correctly handle all SQL Server user-defined data types by mapping them to their base types, so pipelines can seamlessly load data into the columns of these data types. Enhanced the Azure SQL - Bulk Extract Snap to enable the underlying BCP utility (v18 and above) to bypass the certification check enforced by the target SQL Server instance. This ensures the bulk data exports are not blocked because of SSL certificate issues. This change does not impact any Snaps or pipelines that use a BCP utility version below 18. November 2025 main33142 Stable Updated and certified against the current SnapLogic Platform release. August 2025 main32088 Stable Updated and certified against the current SnapLogic Platform release. May 2025 main31019 Stable Updated and certified against the current SnapLogic Platform release. February 2025 440patches30071   Latest Fixed the Null Pointer Exception (NPE) issue in the Azure SQL Snaps. Now, these Snaps display an exception error instead of NPE when the URL properties (key and value) and either key or value are empty. February 2025 main29887   Stable Updated and certified against the current SnapLogic Platform release. November 2024 439patches29842   Latest Enhanced the Azure SQL Entra and Azure SQL Entra Dynamic Accounts with the ActiveDirectoryServicePrincipalCertificate authentication method for improved security and stronger authentication. November 2024 main29029   Stable Updated and certified against the current SnapLogic Platform release. August 2024 main27765   Stable Upgraded the org.json.json library from v20090211 to v20240303, which is fully backward compatible. May 2024 437patches27180   Latest Fixed the following issues with the Azure SQL - Bulk Load Snap: The Snap displayed an error when the DateTime was of the LocalDateTime type. The Snap lost milliseconds when the DateTime was in the String data type because the given DateTime format was parsed into a Date object and the timestamp object was created from that date. May 2024 main26341   Stable The following Azure SQL Active Directory Accounts have been renamed because Microsoft has rebranded Azure Active Directory to Microsoft Entra ID. Azure SQL Active Directory Account → Azure SQL Entra Account Azure SQL Active Directory Dynamic Account → Azure SQL Entra Dynamic Account February 2024 436patches25468   Latest The Azure SQL Bulk Extract Snap now supports Azure SQL Active Directory and Azure SQL Active Directory Dynamic Accounts. February 2024 main25112   Stable Updated and certified against the current SnapLogic Platform release. November 2023 main23721   Stable Updated and certified against the current SnapLogic Platform release. August 2023 main22460   Stable The Azure SQL Execute Snap now includes a new Query type field. When Auto is selected, the Snap determines the query type automatically. May 2023 main21015   Stable Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release. May 2023 432patches20967   Latest Fixed an issue with the connection pool in the Azure SQL accounts, which was affecting the Snap Pack's performance. You should now experience improved performance when using these accounts. March 2023 432patches20318   Latest The Azure SQL - Bulk Extract Snap no longer fails with a java.lang.NumberFormatException error. March 2023 432patches20219   Latest Fixed an issue with the Azure SQL - Bulk Load Snap involving special characters in JDBC URL properties, such as passwords. Special characters are properly escaped now March 2023 432patches20049   Latest Intermittent connectivity issues no longer occur when using some Snaps in the Azure SQL Snap Pack. These issues caused the following message to display: The connection is broken and recovery is not possible. The connection is marked by the client driver as unrecoverable. No attempt was made to restore the connection.  February 2023 main19844   Stable Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release. January 2023 431patches19493   Latest The Azure SQL Active Directory and the Azure SQL Active Directory Dynamic accounts now include an Authentication Mode dropdown list, which allows you to choose the Active Directory authentication mode you would like to use. This enhancement supports Active Directory Service Principal authentication for the Snap Pack. December 2022 431patches19410     Stable Latest Fixed the Azure SQL - Execute Snap using the Azure SQL Active Directory Account that failed with SQL operation failed errors in environments using federated authentication. December 2022 431patches19263   Latest The Azure Synapse SQL Insert Snap no longer includes the Preserve case-sensitivity checkbox because the database is case-insensitive. The database stores the data regardless of whether the columns in the target table and the input data are in mixed, lower, or upper case. November 2022 main18944   Stable The Azure SQL Snap Pack uses the 11.2x driver by default. If you specify any specific driver, ensure that you provide a version higher than 9.1 that is compatible with Microsoft Authentication Library for Java, as this Snap Pack uses the MSAL4J. Otherwise, you may run into issues. August 2022 main17386   Stable The Azure Active Directory Search Entries Snap includes a Display Properties field where you can specify the properties to display in the output for the user or group. For the Snap to correctly return the attributes in the output, you must specify the attribute name as described in User profile attributes in Azure Active Directory B2C. Learn more about Properties for a user and Properties for a group. 4.29 Patch 429patches16545   Latest Fixed an issue with the Azure SQL-Stored Procedure Snap where the Snap failed with an Invalid value type error when the stored procedure contained an NCHAR data type. 4.29 Patch 429patches16460   Latest Fixed an issue with Azure SQL Bulk Load Snap where the Snaplex exited due to insufficient memory when a large number of rows are loaded into the target table and the input data contained a null value for a non-nullable column. 4.29 main15993   Stable Enhanced the Azure SQL Account and Azure SQL Active Directory Account with the Disable connection pooling checkbox that allows you to manage session state sharing. 4.28 Patch 428patches15164   Latest Fixed an issue with the Azure SQL - Update Snap where the Snap failed with an Incorrect syntax error when a column in a table is of NVARCHAR, NCHAR, or NTEXT data type and this column is part of another NVARCHAR, NCHAR, or NTEXT data type column name and the update condition is specified as an expression. 4.28 Patch 428patches15114   Latest Fixed an issue with the Azure SQL - Bulk Load Snap where the decimal values lost precision when they were inserted into the database. 4.28 main14627   Stable Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release. 4.27 main12833   Stable Enhanced the Azure SQL - Execute Snap to invoke stored procedures. 4.26 main11181   Stable Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release. 4.25 main9554   Stable Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release. 4.24 main8556 Stable Enhances the Azure SQL - Stored Procedure to accept parameters from input documents by column keys. If the values are empty, the parameters are populated based on the column keys for easier mapping in the upstream Mapper Snap. 4.23 main7430   Stable Enhances the Azure SQL - Bulk Extract Snap by adding a new check box Enable UTF-8 encoding to support UTF-8 encoded characters. This check box allows the Snap to update the BCP command to read the special characters. 4.22 Patch  422Patches6751   Latest Enhances the Azure SQL - Bulk Extract Snap by adding a new check box Enable UTF-8 encoding to support UTF-8 encoded characters. Selected by default, this check box allows the Snap to update the BCP command to read these special characters. 4.22 main6403   Stable Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release. 4.21 Patch  421patches6272   Latest Fixes the issue where Snowflake SCD2 Snap generates two output documents despite no changes to Cause-historization fields with DATE, TIME and TIMESTAMP Snowflake data types, and with Ignore unchanged rows field selected. 4.21 Patch  421patches6144   Latest Fixes the following issues with DB Snaps: The connection thread waits indefinitely causing the subsequent connection requests to become unresponsive. Connection leaks occur during Pipeline execution. 4.21 Patch 421patches5864   Latest Adds support for UTF_8 characters with BCP (bulk copy program) command to the Azure SQL Bulk Extract Snap. 4.21 Patch MULTIPLE8841   Latest Fixes the connection issue in Database Snaps by detecting and closing open connections after the Snap execution ends.  4.21 snapsmrc542   Stable Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release. 4.20 snapsmrc535   Stable Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release. 4.19 Patch  db/azuresql8403   Latest Fixes an issue with the Azure SQL - Update Snap wherein the Snap is unable to perform operations when: An expression is used in the Update condition property. Input data contain the character '?'. 4.19 snaprsmrc528   Stable Enhanced the error handling in PolyBase Bulk Load Snap when writing to a data warehouse. The Snap writes a new blob in the Azure container. This new blob highlights the first invalid row that caused the bulk load operation to fail. 4.18 snapsmrc523   Stable Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release. 4.17 ALL7402   Latest Pushed automatic rebuild of the latest version of each Snap Pack to SnapLogic UAT and Elastic servers. 4.17 snapsmrc515   Latest Fixes an issue with the Azure SQL Execute Snap wherein the Snap would send the input document to the output view even if the Pass through field is not selected in the Snap configuration. With this fix, the Snap sends the input document to the output view, under the key original, only if you select the Pass through field.  Added the Snap Execution field to all Standard-mode Snaps. In some Snaps, this field replaces the existing Execute during preview check box. 4.16 Patch  db/azuresql7179   Latest Fixes an issue with the Azure SQL Bulk Extract Snap wherein the Snap fails to process all the metadata information of the input table and schema. 4.16 snapsmrc508   Stable Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release. 4.15 Patch  db/azuresql6327   Latest Replaced Max idle time and Idle connection test period properties with Max life time and Idle Timeout properties respectively, in the Account configuration. The new properties fix the connection release issues that were occurring due to default/restricted DB Account settings. 4.15 snapsmrc500   Stable Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release. 4.14 snapsmrc490   Stable Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release. 4.13 snapsmrc486   Stable Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release. 4.12 snapsmrc480   Stable Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release. 4.11 Patch azuresql4631   Latest Fixes an issue with the Azure Polybase Bulk Load Snap that failed with "Parse error" when there was no input. 4.11 Patch  db/azuresql4326   Latest Fixes an issue with the Azure SQL Polybase Bulk Load Snap, that allowed the Snap to load data into a table with identity columns for Azure SQL Data Warehouse instance. Fixes encoding issue when using a Windows plex, and added a "Encoding" Snap property that allows user to choose input data's encoding from UTF-8 and UTF-16. 4.11 snapsmrc465   Stable Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release. 4.10 snapsmrc414   Stable Renamed the Azure SQL Bulk Load Snap to Polybase Bulk Load as it supports Azure SQL DW and SQL Server (starting with 2016). The new Snap, Azure SQL Bulk Load is developed has been developed to carry out the bulk load function extensively for Azure SQL DB. (The old Azure Bulk Load has been renamed to Polybase BulkLoad  which works for on-premise SQL Server and Azure SQL Data Warehouse with polybase functionality). Azure SQL Bulk Load, Table List, Execute, Stored ProcedureAzure SQL - Table Listand Update Snaps are released in this release. Added Auto commit property to the Select and Execute Snaps at the Snap level to support overriding of the Auto commit property at the Account level. Added the below accounts: Azure SQL Active Directory Account Azure SQL Active Directory Dynamic Account 4.9 Patch  azuresql3078   Latest Fixes an issue regarding connection not closed after login failure; Expose autocommit for "Select into" statement in PostgreSQL Execute Snap and Redshift Execute Snap 4.9 snapsmrc405   Stable Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release. 4.8 Patch  azuresql2750 Latest Potential fix for JDBC deadlock issue. 4.8 snapsmrc398   Stable Info tab added to accounts. Database accounts now invalidate connection pools if account properties are modified and login attempts fail. 4.7 Patch azuresql2196   Latest Fixes an issue for database Select Snaps regarding Limit rows not supporting an empty string from a pipeline parameter. 4.7 snapsmrc382   Stable Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release. 4.6 snapsmrc362   Stable Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release. 4.5.1 snapsmrc344   Stable Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release. 4.5 snapsmrc344   Stable Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.



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