Building Silver Transformations with Dataflows Gen2

Best Practices

• Standardize column names
• Deduplicate
• Type‑cast
• Flatten JSON
• Join reference tables
• Validate data quality

Dataflows Gen2 make Silver accessible to business users — no Spark required.

Metadata‑Driven Pipelines — The Enterprise Pattern

Metadata‑driven pipelines use configuration tables to control ingestion — no hard‑coded logic, just parameters.

Benefits

• No hard‑coded logic
• Easy to add new sources
• Easy to modify ingestion
• Easy to scale
• Easy to govern

Metadata Examples

• Source system
• Table name
• Incremental column
• Destination path
• Partitioning rules

Metadata‑driven ingestion is the enterprise standard — it scales infinitely without touching pipeline code.