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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
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...
10/19/2018	10/19/2018 Parameterize connections to your data stores in Azure Data Factory Azure Friday [0:17:41] 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...
10/18/2018	10/18/2018 Parameterize connections to your data stores in Azure Data Factory Microsoft Azure Blog Azure Data Factory (ADF) enables you to do hybrid data movement from 70 plus data stores in a serverless fashion. Often users want to connect to multiple data stores of the same type. For...
10/5/2018	10/5/2018 Get cloud-scale analytics of Office 365 data with Azure Data Factory \| Azure Friday [0:09:21] Gaurav Malhotra joins Scott Hanselman to discuss how you can use Azure to get innovative analytics and insights from your Office 365 data – organizational, customer, transactional, external – in...
10/2/2018	10/2/2018 Azure data integration: Choosing between SSIS Azure Data Factory and Azure Databricks - THR1171 YT: Ignite [0:20:44] You are a data engineer, tasked with integrating data for advanced analytics and reporting purposes. Do you use: a) SQL Server Integrations Services (SSIS)? b) Azure Data Factory...
10/2/2018	10/2/2018 Real-world data movement and orchestration patterns using Azure Data Factory V2 - BRK2279 YT: Ignite [0:44:59] In this session, we start with an overview of Azure Data Factory V2 concepts. Then, we go through some common design patterns for moving and orchestrating data, including incremental and...
10/2/2018	10/2/2018 Thousands of Azure data warehousing success stories - BRK2408 YT: Ignite [0:39:39] In this session, learn about customers building transformational modern data warehouse solutions on Microsoft Azure. Ranging across many industries, come and learn how customers have assembled...
10/2/2018	10/2/2018 Automating Azure SQL Data Warehouse - THR2192 YT: Ignite [0:17:19] Optimize cost, improve performance, and enhance the security of your DW with automation. This session demonstrates several common automation needs. Learn how to trigger a backup or pause your DW...
10/2/2018	10/2/2018 Making AI real with SQL Server Azure databases and Azure big data analytics services - GS005 YT: Ignite [1:19:44] 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...
10/2/2018	10/2/2018 Azure Databricks for data engineers and data developers - BRK3313 YT: Ignite [1:17:59] 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...
10/2/2018	10/2/2018 Azure Data Factory - Enabling modern data integration in the cloud - BRK2204 YT: Ignite [1:08:49] 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...
9/7/2018	9/7/2018 Enhanced productivity using Azure Data Factory visual tools \| Azure Friday [0:14:41] Gaurav Malhotra joins Scott Hanselman to discuss the Azure Data Factory visual tools, which enable you to iteratively create, configure, test, deploy, and monitor data integration pipelines. We...

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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
          7.2.6. Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1
          7.2.7. Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2
          7.2.8. Azure Database for MySQL
          7.2.9. Azure Database for PostgreSQL
          7.2.10. Azure File Storage
          7.2.11. Azure Search
          7.2.12. Azure SQL Database
          7.2.13. Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
          7.2.14. Azure SQL Data Warehouse
          7.2.15. Azure Table Storage
          7.2.16. Cassandra
          7.2.17. Common Data Service for Apps
          7.2.18. Concur
          7.2.19. Couchbase
          7.2.20. DB2
          7.2.21. Drill
          7.2.22. Dynamics 365
          7.2.23. Dynamics CRM
          7.2.24. File System
          7.2.25. FTP
          7.2.26. GE Historian
          7.2.27. Google AdWords
          7.2.28. Google BigQuery
          7.2.29. Greenplum
          7.2.30. HBase
          7.2.31. HDFS
          7.2.32. Hive
          7.2.33. HTTP
          7.2.34. HubSpot
          7.2.35. Impala
          7.2.36. Informix
          7.2.37. Jira
          7.2.38. Magento
          7.2.39. MariaDB
          7.2.40. Marketo
          7.2.41. Microsoft Access
          7.2.42. MongoDB
          7.2.43. MySQL
          7.2.44. Netezza
          7.2.45. OData
          7.2.46. ODBC
          7.2.47. Office 365
          7.2.48. Oracle
          7.2.49. Oracle Eloqua
          7.2.50. Oracle Responsys
          7.2.51. Oracle Service Cloud
          7.2.52. Paypal
          7.2.53. Phoenix
          7.2.54. PostgreSQL
          7.2.55. Presto
          7.2.56. QuickBooks
          7.2.57. Salesforce
          7.2.58. Salesforce Service Cloud
          7.2.59. Salesforce Marketing Cloud
          7.2.60. SAP Business Warehouse
          7.2.61. SAP Cloud for Customer
          7.2.62. SAP ECC
          7.2.63. SAP HANA
          7.2.64. ServiceNow
          7.2.65. SFTP
          7.2.66. Shopify
          7.2.67. Spark
          7.2.68. SQL Server
          7.2.69. Square
          7.2.70. Sybase
          7.2.71. Teradata
          7.2.72. Vertica
          7.2.73. Web Table
          7.2.74. Xero
          7.2.75. 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. Execute Pipeline Activity
          7.5.3. Filter Activity
          7.5.4. For Each Activity
          7.5.5. Get Metadata Activity
          7.5.6. If Condition Activity
          7.5.7. Lookup Activity
          7.5.8. Set Variable Activity
          7.5.9. Until Activity
          7.5.10. Wait Activity
          7.5.11. 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
     7.9. Create integration runtime
          7.9.1. Azure integration runtime
          7.9.2. Self hosted integration runtime
          7.9.3. Azure-SSIS integration runtime
     7.10. 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. 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
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
10/5/2018	Get cloud-scale analytics of Office 365 data with Azure Data Factory \| Azure Friday Gaurav Malhotra joins Scott Hanselman to discuss how you can use Azure to get innovative analytics and insights from your Office 365 data – organizational, customer, transactional, external – in a way that was not possible before....	0:09:21
10/2/2018	Azure data integration: Choosing between SSIS Azure Data Factory and Azure Databricks - THR1171 YT: Ignite You are a data engineer, tasked with integrating data for advanced analytics and reporting purposes. Do you use: a) SQL Server Integrations Services (SSIS)? b) Azure Data Factory (ADF)? c) Azure Databricks? d) All...	0:20:44
10/2/2018	Real-world data movement and orchestration patterns using Azure Data Factory V2 - BRK2279 YT: Ignite In this session, we start with an overview of Azure Data Factory V2 concepts. Then, we go through some common design patterns for moving and orchestrating data, including incremental and metadata-driven pipelines. Along the way, we...	0:44:59
10/2/2018	Thousands of Azure data warehousing success stories - BRK2408 YT: Ignite In this session, learn about customers building transformational modern data warehouse solutions on Microsoft Azure. Ranging across many industries, come and learn how customers have assembled Azure services such as Azure Data Factory,...	0:39:39
10/2/2018	Automating Azure SQL Data Warehouse - THR2192 YT: Ignite Optimize cost, improve performance, and enhance the security of your DW with automation. This session demonstrates several common automation needs. Learn how to trigger a backup or pause your DW at the end your Azure Data Factory...	0:17:19
10/2/2018	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,...	1:19:44
10/2/2018	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...	1:17:59
10/2/2018	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...	1:08:49

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