This section will introduce us to the Azure Data Factory. In this section, we will go through the most simple definition created using a Data Copy wizard. A goal of our example is to copy data from some SQL Server database tables into a CSV file stored in an Azure storage account.
As a prerequisite, we need an Azure subscription. A free subscription is enough. In the subscription, create an SQL Server database from a sample. This will create a database named AdventureWorksLT. After doing this, create an Azure storage account containing one blob storage in a folder named files. These preparation tasks are quite simple and we will not spend too much time describing how to do them. When our environment is prepared, ...
