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Implement Fill Down in ADF and Synapse Data Flows

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Mark Kromer
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Dec 23, 2020
"Fill down" is an operation common in data prep and data cleansing meant to solve the problem with data sets when you want to replace NULL values with the value from the previous non-NULL value in th...
Updated Dec 23, 2020
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darivuki
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Feb 24, 2021

I can't get this thing to work. The same has been referenced here as well https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/data-flow-script#fill-down

 

For some reason, when I implement this script on my data, it just creates the additional column with the same value as in the originating column, failing to fill down...