SOQL Select all columns in Azure Data Factory (Incremental Load from Salesforce)

Question

Azure Data Factory gives an option to load data incrementally by using an SOQL query, Example bellow:

Select COLUMN_1,...,COLUMN_N from Account Where COLUMN_X = 'VALUES_X'

There is another solution: Delta copy from a database with a control table; but it is dedicated to Azure SQL Database and doesn't take into consideration other Data Sources like Salesforce: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/solution-template-delta-copy-with-control-table

Thus, we always have to use an SOQL query. The problem with it, is that we can't do a SELECT ALL as in SQL, example bellow:

Select * from Account

So we have to write manually tens of columns for multiple tables!

Is there any way to launch an SOQL query from a Copy Data Activity in Azure Data Factory without mentioning all the columns?

Best regards,

Answer 1

A SOQL equivalent of SELECT * (SELECT FIELDS(ALL)) will become available in the Spring '21 release.

Salesforce Object Query Language (SOQL) now makes it easy to include pre-defined groupings of fields within a query statement using the new FIELDS() function.

How: Use FIELDS(ALL), FIELDS(STANDARD), or FIELDS(CUSTOM) in your SELECT statements. For more information, see FIELDS() in the SOQL and SOSL Reference.

Until Spring '21 is released, using hard-coded SOQL queries or dynamically generating them by scripting access to the org's Describe API are the only routes.