Mapping Data Flows in Azure Data Factory: Building Scalable ETL Projects in the Microsoft Cloud

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M. KromerMapping Data Flows in Azure Data Factoryhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8612-8_2

2. Introduction to Azure Data Factory

Mark Kromer¹  

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SNOHOMISH, WA, USA

 

Azure Data Factory is the Microsoft Azure cloud service for data engineers for building, scheduling, and executing data integration and extract, transform, and load (ETL) processes . In this chapter, we’ll focus on how to build cloud-first ETL projects using ADF with ADF’s Mapping Data Flows code-free data transformation features.

What Is Azure Data Factory?

But first we need to start with a fundamental overview of the ADF service and its components. It is important to have an understanding ...