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R. SwinbankAzure Data Factory by Examplehttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0218-8_4

4. Pipeline Expressions

Richard Swinbank1  
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Tewkesbury, UK
 

The pipelines you authored in Chapter 3 have at least one thing in common: the values of all their properties are static – that is to say that they were determined at development time. In very many places, Azure Data Factory supports the use of dynamic property values – determined at runtime – through the use of pipeline expressions.

The main focus of this chapter is to introduce you to pipeline expressions, but you will also start to encounter more pipeline activities. The Copy activity is sufficiently broad and ...

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