What is incremental load and other types of loads? How do you implement incremental load in your ADF pipeline?

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Incremental load is a process of updating only the new or changed data in a target system. Other types of loads include full load and delta load.

Incremental load reduces the time and resources required to update the target system.
Full load loads all the data from the source system to the target system.
Delta load loads only the changed data from the source system to the target system.
In ADF pipeline, incremental load can be implemented using watermarking or change data capture (CDC) techniques.
Watermarking involves adding a column to the source data that tracks the last updated time or ID.
CDC involves capturing the changes made to the source data since the last update and loading only those changes to the target system.

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