Azure Data Factory by Example: Practical Implementation for Data Engineers

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R. SwinbankAzure Data Factory by Examplehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7029-5_11

11. Triggers

Richard Swinbank¹  

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Birmingham, UK

 

In Chapter 10, you explored how to deploy Azure Data Factory resources into published factory environments. You tested running one or more published pipelines by executing them manually from the ADF UX – in this chapter, you will explore how pipelines can be executed automatically using triggers.

A trigger defines conditions of different types for pipeline execution:

• A schedule trigger runs at configured dates and times.

• An event-based trigger runs when a file is created or deleted in Azure blob storage.

• A tumbling window trigger ...