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_6

6. Controlling Flow

Richard Swinbank¹  

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Birmingham, UK

 

In Chapter 4, you began building ADF pipelines containing more than one activity, controlling their order of execution using activity dependencies configured between them. Activity dependencies are among a range of tools available in ADF for controlling a pipeline’s flow of execution.

In this chapter, you will develop more sophisticated control flows using activity dependencies with different dependency conditions. You will also encounter other ADF activities with the specific purpose of controlling flow. To begin with, ...