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Introduction to Azure Data Factory

10/7/2015, Video, 0:59:31

The data landscape is more varied than ever with unstructured and structured data originating from many cloud and on-premises sources. Data Factory enables you to process...
Orchestrating Data and Services with Azure Data Factory

2/25/2016, Mva

Exploring data orchestration concepts? Check out this course on the basic capabilities of Azure Data Factory (ADF). Get an overview of advanced analytics, and see how Azure...
Intro to Data Factory Deep Dive

10/7/2015, Video, 0:31:34

This video takes a deeper dive into the features and functions of the Azure Data Factory orchestration engineLearn more: http://aka.ms/g7hlpt
Building Hybrid Big Data Pipelines with Azure Data Factory

10/7/2015, Video, 1:11:26

This video takes a deeper dive into how Azure Data Factory can be used to build hybrid big data analytics pipelines through the lens of an automated risk processing use case...

Latest Content

Date	Title
1/14/2019	1/14/2019 Run Azure Functions from Azure Data Factory pipelines Azure Friday [0:14:22] Azure Functions is a serverless compute service that enables you to run code on-demand without having to explicitly provision or manage infrastructure. Using Azure Functions, you can run a script...
1/14/2019	1/14/2019 Run Azure Functions from Azure Data Factory pipelines [0:07:50] Azure Functions is a serverless compute service that enables you to run code on-demand without having to explicitly provision or manage infrastructure. Using Azure Functions, you can run a script...
12/17/2018	12/17/2018 Azure Data Factory Data Flow James Serra's Blog Azure Data Factory v2 (ADF) has a new feature in public preview called Data Flow. I have usually described ADF as an orchestration tool instead of an Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) tool since it...
12/13/2018	12/13/2018 Azure Functions now supported as a step in Azure Data Factory pipelines Microsoft Azure Blog Azure Functions is a serverless compute service that enables you to run code on-demand without having to explicitly provision or manage infrastructure. Using Azure Functions, you can run a script...
11/18/2018	11/18/2018 Azure Data Factory V2– Pipeline Functional Testing This article helps you to understand functional testing with pipelines in Azure Data Factory. Note:- This article applies to Azure Data Factory V2. This article assumes that you have gone through...
11/13/2018	11/13/2018 Enterprise BI with SQL Data Warehouse and Azure Data Factory YT: Microsoft Azure [0:03:26] In this video, Peter Taylor, Senior Content Developer of Patterns and Practices at Microsoft, gives an overview of Azure reference architectures, discusses who should use the reference...
11/2/2018	11/2/2018 Making AI real with SQL Server Azure databases and Azure big data analytics services - GS005 YT: Ignite [1:19:41] Are you interested in learning how data and AI can transform your business? If so, this is a ‘must see’ session for you. Be the first to learn about the latest innovations in Microsoft’s Data and...
11/2/2018	11/2/2018 Hybrid data movement across multiple Azure Data Factories \| Azure Friday [0:11:26] Gaurav Malhotra and Scott Hanselman discuss how you can now share a self-hosted Integration Runtime (IR) across multiple data factories and consolidate on a single, highly available, multi-node...
11/2/2018	11/2/2018 Hybrid data movement across multiple Azure Data Factories Azure Friday [0:13:36] Gaurav Malhotra and Scott Hanselman discuss how you can now share a self-hosted Integration Runtime (IR) across multiple data factories and consolidate on a single, highly available, multi-node...
10/25/2018	10/25/2018 Azure Data Factory - Enabling modern data integration in the cloud - BRK2204 YT: Ignite [1:08:54] This session walks through a comprehensive set of new additions to Azure Data Factory (ADF) and SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) for moving and integrating data across on-premises and...
10/24/2018	10/24/2018 Azure Databricks for data engineers and data developers - BRK3313 YT: Ignite [1:18:19] Data engineering is about 70% of any data pipeline today, and without having the experience to implement a data engineering pipeline well, there is no value to be accumulated from your data. In...
10/19/2018	10/19/2018 Parameterize connections to your data stores in Azure Data Factory \| Azure Friday [0:07:03] Azure Data Factory enables you to do hybrid data movement from 70 plus data stores in a serverless fashion. Gaurav Malhotra and Scott Hanselman discuss how you can now parameterize your...

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Azure Data Factory Documentation

1. Switch to version 1 documentation
2. Overview
     2.1. Introduction to Data Factory
     2.2. Compare current version to version 1
3. Quickstarts
     3.1. Create data factory - User interface (UI)
     3.2. Create data factory - Copy Data tool
     3.3. Create data factory - Azure PowerShell
     3.4. Create data factory - .NET
     3.5. Create data factory - Python
     3.6. Create data factory - REST
     3.7. Create data factory - Resource Manager template
4. Tutorials
     4.1. Copy data in cloud
          4.1.1. Copy Data tool
          4.1.2. User interface (UI)
          4.1.3. .NET
     4.2. Copy on-premises data to cloud
          4.2.1. Copy Data tool
          4.2.2. User interface (UI)
          4.2.3. Azure PowerShell
     4.3. Copy data in bulk
          4.3.1. User interface (UI)
          4.3.2. Azure PowerShell
     4.4. Copy data incrementally
          4.4.1. 1 - Copy from one table
               4.4.1.1. User interface (UI)
               4.4.1.2. Azure PowerShell
          4.4.2. 2 - Copy from multiple tables
               4.4.2.1. User interface (UI)
               4.4.2.2. Azure PowerShell
          4.4.3. 3 - Use change tracking feature
               4.4.3.1. User interface (UI)
               4.4.3.2. Azure PowerShell
     4.5. Transform data in cloud
          4.5.1. HDInsight Spark
               4.5.1.1. User interface (UI)
               4.5.1.2. Azure PowerShell
          4.5.2. Databricks Notebook
               4.5.2.1. User interface (UI)
     4.6. Transform data in virtual network
          4.6.1. User interface (UI)
          4.6.2. Azure PowerShell
     4.7. Add branching and chaining
          4.7.1. User interface (UI)
          4.7.2. .NET
     4.8. Run SSIS packages in Azure
          4.8.1. User interface (UI)
          4.8.2. Azure PowerShell
5. Samples
     5.1. Code samples
     5.2. Azure PowerShell
6. Concepts
     6.1. Pipelines and activities
     6.2. Datasets and linked services
     6.3. Pipeline execution and triggers
     6.4. Integration runtime
     6.5. Roles and permissions
     6.6. Understanding pricing
     6.7. Naming rules
7. How-to guides
     7.1. Author
          7.1.1. Visually author data factories
          7.1.2. Continuous integration and delivery
          7.1.3. Iterative development and debugging
     7.2. Connectors
          7.2.1. Amazon Marketplace Web Service
          7.2.2. Amazon Redshift
          7.2.3. Amazon S3
          7.2.4. Azure Blob Storage
          7.2.5. Azure Cosmos DB SQL API
          7.2.6. Azure Cosmos DB MongDB API
          7.2.7. Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1
          7.2.8. Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2
          7.2.9. Azure Database for MariaDB
          7.2.10. Azure Database for MySQL
          7.2.11. Azure Database for PostgreSQL
          7.2.12. Azure File Storage
          7.2.13. Azure Search
          7.2.14. Azure SQL Database
          7.2.15. Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
          7.2.16. Azure SQL Data Warehouse
          7.2.17. Azure Table Storage
          7.2.18. Cassandra
          7.2.19. Common Data Service for Apps
          7.2.20. Concur
          7.2.21. Couchbase
          7.2.22. DB2
          7.2.23. Drill
          7.2.24. Dynamics 365
          7.2.25. Dynamics AX
          7.2.26. Dynamics CRM
          7.2.27. File System
          7.2.28. FTP
          7.2.29. Google AdWords
          7.2.30. Google BigQuery
          7.2.31. Google Cloud Storage
          7.2.32. Greenplum
          7.2.33. HBase
          7.2.34. HDFS
          7.2.35. Hive
          7.2.36. HTTP
          7.2.37. HubSpot
          7.2.38. Impala
          7.2.39. Informix
          7.2.40. Jira
          7.2.41. Magento
          7.2.42. MariaDB
          7.2.43. Marketo
          7.2.44. Microsoft Access
          7.2.45. MongoDB
               7.2.45.1. MongoDB (legacy)
          7.2.46. MySQL
          7.2.47. Netezza
          7.2.48. OData
          7.2.49. ODBC
          7.2.50. Office 365
          7.2.51. Oracle
          7.2.52. Oracle Eloqua
          7.2.53. Oracle Responsys
          7.2.54. Oracle Service Cloud
          7.2.55. Paypal
          7.2.56. Phoenix
          7.2.57. PostgreSQL
          7.2.58. Presto
          7.2.59. QuickBooks Online
          7.2.60. REST
          7.2.61. Salesforce
          7.2.62. Salesforce Service Cloud
          7.2.63. Salesforce Marketing Cloud
          7.2.64. SAP Business Warehouse
          7.2.65. SAP Cloud for Customer
          7.2.66. SAP ECC
          7.2.67. SAP HANA
          7.2.68. ServiceNow
          7.2.69. SFTP
          7.2.70. Shopify
          7.2.71. Spark
          7.2.72. SQL Server
          7.2.73. Square
          7.2.74. Sybase
          7.2.75. Teradata
          7.2.76. Vertica
          7.2.77. Web Table
          7.2.78. Xero
          7.2.79. Zoho
     7.3. Copy data
          7.3.1. Copy data using Copy Activity
          7.3.2. Copy Data tool
          7.3.3. Load Data Lake Storage Gen2
               7.3.3.1. Copy from Data Lake Storage Gen1
          7.3.4. Load SQL Data Warehouse
          7.3.5. Load Data Lake Storage Gen1
          7.3.6. Load Office 365 data
          7.3.7. Read or write partitioned data
          7.3.8. Format and compression support
          7.3.9. Schema and type mapping
          7.3.10. Fault tolerance
          7.3.11. Performance and tuning
     7.4. Transform data
          7.4.1. HdInsight Hive Activity
          7.4.2. HdInsight Pig Activity
          7.4.3. HdInsight MapReduce Activity
          7.4.4. HdInsight Streaming Activity
          7.4.5. HdInsight Spark Activity
          7.4.6. ML Batch Execution Activity
          7.4.7. ML Update Resource Activity
          7.4.8. Stored Procedure Activity
          7.4.9. Data Lake U-SQL Activity
          7.4.10. Databricks Notebook Activity
          7.4.11. Databricks Jar Activity
          7.4.12. Databricks Python Activity
          7.4.13. Custom activity
          7.4.14. Compute linked services
     7.5. Control flow
          7.5.1. Append Variable Activity
          7.5.2. Azure Function Activity
          7.5.3. Execute Pipeline Activity
          7.5.4. Filter Activity
          7.5.5. For Each Activity
          7.5.6. Get Metadata Activity
          7.5.7. If Condition Activity
          7.5.8. Lookup Activity
          7.5.9. Set Variable Activity
          7.5.10. Until Activity
          7.5.11. Wait Activity
          7.5.12. Web Activity
     7.6. Parameterize
          7.6.1. Parameterize linked services
          7.6.2. Expression Language
          7.6.3. System variables
     7.7. Security
          7.7.1. Data movement security considerations
          7.7.2. Store credentials in Azure Key Vault
          7.7.3. Encrypt credentials for self-hosted integration runtime
          7.7.4. Data factory service identity
     7.8. Monitor and manage
          7.8.1. Monitor visually
          7.8.2. Monitor with Azure Monitor
          7.8.3. Monitor with SDKs
          7.8.4. Monitor integration runtime
          7.8.5. Monitor Azure-SSIS integration runtime
          7.8.6. Reconfigure Azure-SSIS integration runtime
          7.8.7. Copy or clone a data factory
     7.9. Create integration runtime
          7.9.1. Azure integration runtime
          7.9.2. Self hosted integration runtime
          7.9.3. Azure-SSIS integration runtime
          7.9.4. Shared self-hosted integration runtime
     7.10. Run SSIS packages in Azure
          7.10.1. Run SSIS packages with Execute SSIS Package activity
          7.10.2. Run SSIS packages with Stored Procedure activity
          7.10.3. Schedule Azure-SSIS integration runtime
          7.10.4. Join Azure-SSIS IR to a virtual network
          7.10.5. Enable Azure AD authentication for Azure-SSIS IR
          7.10.6. Provision Enterprise Edition for Azure-SSIS IR
          7.10.7. Customize setup for Azure-SSIS IR
          7.10.8. Install licensed components for Azure-SSIS IR
          7.10.9. Configure high performance for Azure-SSIS IR
          7.10.10. Configure disaster recovery for Azure-SSIS IR
          7.10.11. Clean up SSISDB logs with Elastic Database Jobs
     7.11. Create triggers
          7.11.1. Create a schedule trigger
          7.11.2. Create a tumbling window trigger
          7.11.3. Create an event-based trigger
8. Reference
     8.1. .NET
     8.2. PowerShell
     8.3. REST API
     8.4. Resource Manager template
     8.5. Python
9. Resources
     9.1. Ask a question - MSDN forum
     9.2. Ask a question - Stack Overflow
     9.3. Request a feature
     9.4. FAQ
     9.5. Roadmap
     9.6. Pricing
     9.7. Availability by region
     9.8. Support options

Web Pages

Content	Type
How to migrate SQL Server to Azure SQL using Azure Data Factory	Whitepaper
Build 2016 Workshops: Azure Data Services	Lab
Cloud Data Camp	Lab

Online Training Content

Date	Title
5/24/2017	Orchestrating Big Data with Azure Data Factory This data analysis course teaches you how to use Azure Data Factory to coordinate data movement and transformation using technologies such as Hadoop, SQL, and Azure Data Lake Analytics. You will learn how to create data pipelines that will allow you to group activities to perform a certain task.
7/4/2016	Design and Implement Big Data & Advanced Analytics Solutions Would you like to know how to build big data and advanced analytics solutions? This course is a great starting point. Learn features and capabilities of the Microsoft cloud data platform that can help you build solutions using big data and analytics.
2/25/2016	Orchestrating Data and Services with Azure Data Factory Exploring data orchestration concepts? Check out this course on the basic capabilities of Azure Data Factory (ADF). Get an overview of advanced analytics, and see how Azure Data Factory fits into the Cortana Analytics Suite. Plus, learn how to operate a data factory as part of an analytics solution.

Tools

Tool	Description	Author

Videos

Date	Title	Length
1/14/2019	Run Azure Functions from Azure Data Factory pipelines Azure Friday Azure Functions is a serverless compute service that enables you to run code on-demand without having to explicitly provision or manage infrastructure. Using Azure Functions, you can run a script or piece of code in response to a...	0:14:22
1/14/2019	Run Azure Functions from Azure Data Factory pipelines Azure Functions is a serverless compute service that enables you to run code on-demand without having to explicitly provision or manage infrastructure. Using Azure Functions, you can run a script or piece of code in response to a...	0:07:50
11/13/2018	Enterprise BI with SQL Data Warehouse and Azure Data Factory YT: Microsoft Azure In this video, Peter Taylor, Senior Content Developer of Patterns and Practices at Microsoft, gives an overview of Azure reference architectures, discusses who should use the reference architecture, and goes deeper into the automated...	0:03:26
11/2/2018	Making AI real with SQL Server Azure databases and Azure big data analytics services - GS005 YT: Ignite Are you interested in learning how data and AI can transform your business? If so, this is a ‘must see’ session for you. Be the first to learn about the latest innovations in Microsoft’s Data and AI platform, including SQL Server,...	1:19:41
11/2/2018	Hybrid data movement across multiple Azure Data Factories \| Azure Friday Gaurav Malhotra and Scott Hanselman discuss how you can now share a self-hosted Integration Runtime (IR) across multiple data factories and consolidate on a single, highly available, multi-node (up to 4 nodes) self-hosted IR...	0:11:26
11/2/2018	Hybrid data movement across multiple Azure Data Factories Azure Friday Gaurav Malhotra and Scott Hanselman discuss how you can now share a self-hosted Integration Runtime (IR) across multiple data factories and consolidate on a single, highly available, multi-node (up to 4 nodes) self-hosted IR...	0:13:36
10/25/2018	Azure Data Factory - Enabling modern data integration in the cloud - BRK2204 YT: Ignite This session walks through a comprehensive set of new additions to Azure Data Factory (ADF) and SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) for moving and integrating data across on-premises and cloud. Topics and examples focus on the needs...	1:08:54
10/24/2018	Azure Databricks for data engineers and data developers - BRK3313 YT: Ignite Data engineering is about 70% of any data pipeline today, and without having the experience to implement a data engineering pipeline well, there is no value to be accumulated from your data. In this session we discuss the best...	1:18:19
10/19/2018	Parameterize connections to your data stores in Azure Data Factory \| Azure Friday Azure Data Factory enables you to do hybrid data movement from 70 plus data stores in a serverless fashion. Gaurav Malhotra and Scott Hanselman discuss how you can now parameterize your connections to data stores and pass dynamic...	0:07:03
10/19/2018	Parameterize connections to your data stores in Azure Data Factory Azure Friday Azure Data Factory enables you to do hybrid data movement from 70 plus data stores in a serverless fashion. Gaurav Malhotra and Scott Hanselman discuss how you can now parameterize your connections to data stores and pass dynamic...	0:17:41

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