Chapter 19. Introducing the Data Flow Task
IN THIS CHAPTER
“IT’S ALL JUST BOXES AND LINES.”—BRIAN CHRISTIAN
On its face, the Data Flow Task looks much like workflow in a package. It’s all just boxes and lines. You drop components (boxes) onto the surface and then create paths (lines) between them. But that’s where the similarity ends. Whereas workflow is a coordinated sequence of atomic units of work possibly executing in parallel, data flow is a set of sequential operations on streaming data necessarily executing in parallel. Workflow executes a task once and moves on (loops excluded), whereas data flow operations process data in parallel until the data stream terminates.
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