Ben Weissman gives us an example of running data comparison using Biml:
When you build an ETL Solution, at some point you will most likely feel the need to compare the data between your source and your staging (or datawarehouse) database. There may be various reasons for them to be out of sync, such as delta loads, aggregations or added business logic, but one day your phone will ring and whoever is on the other end will tell you that the numbers are wrong. While this doesn’t necessarily have to be an issue within your ETL process, it might just as well be the report itself. In many cases, this is a good starting point to look at.
This article (formally published on PASS Community Blog) focusses on SSIS as your orchestrator, but the same principles could, obviously, also be applied to Azure Data Factory for example. Also, as we want to solve this task as lightweight as possible, we will, demonstrably, use Biml to implement it!
Click through to see how.