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Sudhir Rawat and Abhishek NarainUnderstanding Azure Data Factoryhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4122-6_2

2. Introduction to Azure Data Factory

Sudhir Rawat1  and Abhishek Narain2
(1)
Bangalore, India
(2)
Shanghai, China
 

In any Big Data or advanced analytics solution, the orchestration layer plays an important role in stitching together the heterogenous environments and operationalizing the workflow. Your overall solution may involve moving raw data from disparate sources to a staging/sink store on Azure, running some rich transform jobs (ELT) on the raw data, and finally generating valuable insights to be published using reporting tools and stored in a data warehouse for access. Azure Data Factory is the extract-transform-load ...

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