Data sources
Data should first be ingested within the data factory. Data can be either be on cloud or on-premise. The data needs to move within Azure data factory. Azure data factory provides linked services and dataset constructs for connecting and fetching data into the data factory.
Datasets refer to actual data stored at the data source or data location. It could be a comma separated value file on the on-premise server or a file in a container in the Azure storage account as blob or in the Azure SQL. The possibilities are endless. Linked services refer to the process of connecting to the data source by using a data source specific connection string and using it to fetch datasets into the data factory. For example, if you are copying data ...
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