Azure Data Factory by Example: Practical Implementation for Data Engineers

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R. SwinbankAzure Data Factory by Examplehttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0218-8_2

2. Your First Pipeline

Richard Swinbank¹  

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Tewkesbury, UK

 

ETL workloads are implemented in Azure Data Factory in units called pipelines. Using the data factory instance you created in Chapter 1, in this chapter, you will create a pipeline using the Copy Data tool – a pipeline creation wizard that steps through creating the various components that make up a pipeline. Afterward, you’ll be able to examine the pipeline in detail to gain an understanding of how it is constructed.

The Copy Data tool guides you through building pipelines with the purpose of copying data from one ...