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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
4/17/2018	4/17/2018 Continuous integration and deployment using Azure Data Factory \| Azure Friday YT: Microsoft Azure [0:09:11] Gaurav Malhotra joins Scott Hanselman to discuss how you can follow industry-leading best practices to do continuous integration and deployment for your Extract Transform/Load (ETL) and Extract...
4/16/2018	4/16/2018 Iterative development and debugging using Data Factory Microsoft Azure Blog There is increasingly a need among users to develop and debug their Extract Transform/Load (ETL) and Extract Load/Transform (ELT) workflows iteratively. Now, Azure Data Factory (ADF) visual tools...
4/9/2018	4/9/2018 Support for operationalizing Azure Databricks notebooks Service Updates Operationalize your Azure Databricks notebooks by using Azure Data Factory.
4/9/2018	4/9/2018 Continuous integration and deployment using Data Factory Microsoft Azure Blog Azure Data Factory (ADF) visual tools public preview was announced on Jan 16, 2018. With visual tools, you can iteratively build, debug, deploy, operationalize and monitor your big data...
4/2/2018	4/2/2018 Ingest, prepare, and transform using Azure Databricks and Data Factory Microsoft Azure Blog Azure Databricks general availability was announced on March 22, 2018. Now Azure Databricks is fully integrated with Azure Data Factory (ADF).
3/23/2018	3/23/2018 Azure Data Factory supports Azure AD authentication Service Updates Azure Data Factory V2 supports Azure AD authentication for Azure SQL Database and SQL Data Warehouse, as an alternative to SQL Server authentication.
1/31/2018	1/31/2018 New Azure Data Factory self-paced hands-on lab for UI Microsoft Azure Blog Announcing a new self-paced hands-on Lab for the Azure Data Factory UI to visually build scale-out data pipelines in the cloud using ADF V2.
1/26/2018	1/26/2018 In preview - Visual tools added to Azure Data Factory Azure Roadmap In response to your feedback, we're happy to announce the release of visual tools for Azure Data Factory that allow you to get pipelines up and running quickly without having to write a single...
1/25/2018	1/25/2018 Cloud Tech 10 - 22nd January 2018 - Data Factory v2 Visual Tools, Accelerated Networking and more! CloudTechTV [0:08:18] Like keeping up with Azure but struggling to find enough time? Then this is the video for you! I'm Mark Whitby, a Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft UK. Each week, I cover what's happening...
1/25/2018	1/25/2018 From unstructured data to dashboard with Azure Data Factory and Azure Data Lake When I joined the Big Data team at Microsoft, sifting through all the technologies and products left me with more questions than answers – as it does for many customers taking their first steps...
1/25/2018	1/25/2018 From unstructured data to dashboard with Azure Data Factory and Azure Data Lake ADL & HDI Blog When I joined the Big Data team at Microsoft, sifting through all the technologies and products left me with more questions than answers – as it does for many customers taking their first steps...
1/22/2018	1/22/2018 Last week in Azure: New visual tools for Data Factory, and more Microsoft Azure Blog If you were too busy writing code, attending meetings, or enjoying some time away from work, here's an overview of what you may have missed in Azure last week: new visual tools for Azure Data...

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Azure Documentation

1. Data Factory V2 Documentation
2. Overview
     2.1. Introduction to Data Factory
     2.2. Compare versions 1 and 2
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. 1 - Deploy SSIS packages to Azure
          4.1.1. User Interface (UI)
          4.1.2. Azure PowerShell
     4.2. 2 - Copy data in cloud
          4.2.1. Copy Data tool
          4.2.2. User Interface (UI)
          4.2.3. .NET
     4.3. 3 - Copy on-premises data to cloud
          4.3.1. Copy Data tool
          4.3.2. User Interface (UI)
          4.3.3. Azure PowerShell
     4.4. 4 - Copy data in bulk
          4.4.1. User Interface (UI)
          4.4.2. Azure PowerShell
     4.5. 5 - Copy data incrementally
          4.5.1. 5.1 - Copy from one table
               4.5.1.1. User Interface (UI)
               4.5.1.2. Azure PowerShell
          4.5.2. 5.2 - Copy from multiple tables
               4.5.2.1. User interface (UI)
               4.5.2.2. Azure PowerShell
          4.5.3. 5.3 - Use change tracking feature
               4.5.3.1. User Interface (UI)
               4.5.3.2. Azure PowerShell
     4.6. 6 - Transform data in cloud
          4.6.1. HDInsight Spark
               4.6.1.1. User interface (UI)
               4.6.1.2. Azure PowerShell
          4.6.2. Databricks Notebook
               4.6.2.1. User interface (UI)
     4.7. 7 - Transform data in virtual network
          4.7.1. User Interface (UI)
          4.7.2. Azure PowerShell
     4.8. 8 - Control flow
          4.8.1. User Interface (UI)
          4.8.2. .NET
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
7. How-to guides
     7.1. Author
          7.1.1. Visually author data factories
          7.1.2. Continuous integration and deployment
          7.1.3. Iterative development and debugging
     7.2. Copy data
          7.2.1. Copy data using Copy Activity
          7.2.2. Copy Data tool
               7.2.2.1. Load Data Lake Store
               7.2.2.2. Load SQL Data Warehouse
          7.2.3. Read or write partitioned data
          7.2.4. Connectors
               7.2.4.1. Amazon Marketplace Web Service
               7.2.4.2. Amazon Redshift
               7.2.4.3. Amazon S3
               7.2.4.4. Azure Blob Storage
               7.2.4.5. Azure Cosmos DB
               7.2.4.6. Azure Data Lake Store
               7.2.4.7. Azure Database for MySQL
               7.2.4.8. Azure Database for PostgreSQL
               7.2.4.9. Azure File Storage
               7.2.4.10. Azure Search
               7.2.4.11. Azure SQL Database
               7.2.4.12. Azure SQL Data Warehouse
               7.2.4.13. Azure Table Storage
               7.2.4.14. Cassandra
               7.2.4.15. Common Data Service for Apps
               7.2.4.16. Concur
               7.2.4.17. Couchbase
               7.2.4.18. DB2
               7.2.4.19. Drill
               7.2.4.20. Dynamics 365
               7.2.4.21. Dynamics CRM
               7.2.4.22. File System
               7.2.4.23. FTP
               7.2.4.24. GE Historian
               7.2.4.25. Google BigQuery
               7.2.4.26. Greenplum
               7.2.4.27. HBase
               7.2.4.28. HDFS
               7.2.4.29. Hive
               7.2.4.30. HTTP
               7.2.4.31. HubSpot
               7.2.4.32. Impala
               7.2.4.33. Informix
               7.2.4.34. Jira
               7.2.4.35. Magento
               7.2.4.36. MariaDB
               7.2.4.37. Marketo
               7.2.4.38. Microsoft Access
               7.2.4.39. MongoDB
               7.2.4.40. MySQL
               7.2.4.41. Netezza
               7.2.4.42. OData
               7.2.4.43. ODBC
               7.2.4.44. Oracle
               7.2.4.45. Oracle Eloqua
               7.2.4.46. Paypal
               7.2.4.47. Phoenix
               7.2.4.48. PostgreSQL
               7.2.4.49. Presto
               7.2.4.50. QuickBooks
               7.2.4.51. Salesforce
               7.2.4.52. Salesforce Service Cloud
               7.2.4.53. SAP Business Warehouse
               7.2.4.54. SAP Cloud for Customer
               7.2.4.55. SAP ECC
               7.2.4.56. SAP HANA
               7.2.4.57. ServiceNow
               7.2.4.58. SFTP
               7.2.4.59. Shopify
               7.2.4.60. Spark
               7.2.4.61. SQL Server
               7.2.4.62. Square
               7.2.4.63. Sybase
               7.2.4.64. Teradata
               7.2.4.65. Vertica
               7.2.4.66. Web Table
               7.2.4.67. Xero
               7.2.4.68. Zoho
          7.2.5. Format and compression support
          7.2.6. Schema and type mapping
          7.2.7. Fault tolerance
          7.2.8. Performance and tuning
     7.3. Transform data
          7.3.1. HdInsight Hive Activity
          7.3.2. HdInsight Pig Activity
          7.3.3. HdInsight MapReduce Activity
          7.3.4. HdInsight Streaming Activity
          7.3.5. HdInsight Spark Activity
          7.3.6. ML Batch Execution Activity
          7.3.7. ML Update Resource Activity
          7.3.8. Stored Procedure Activity
          7.3.9. Data Lake U-SQL Activity
          7.3.10. Databricks Notebook Activity
          7.3.11. Custom activity
          7.3.12. Compute linked services
     7.4. Control flow
          7.4.1. If Condition Activity
          7.4.2. Until Activity
          7.4.3. Web Activity
          7.4.4. Lookup Activity
          7.4.5. Get Metadata Activity
          7.4.6. Execute Pipeline Activity
          7.4.7. For Each Activity
          7.4.8. Wait Activity
          7.4.9. Expression Language
          7.4.10. System variables
     7.5. Security
          7.5.1. Data movement security considerations
          7.5.2. Store credentials in Azure Key Vault
          7.5.3. Encrypt credentials for self-hosted integration runtime
          7.5.4. Data factory service identity
     7.6. Monitor and manage
          7.6.1. Use SDKs
          7.6.2. Use Azure Monitor
          7.6.3. Monitor visually
          7.6.4. Manage Azure-SSIS integration runtime
          7.6.5. Monitor integration runtime
     7.7. Create integration runtime
          7.7.1. Azure integration runtime
          7.7.2. Self hosted integration runtime
          7.7.3. Azure-SSIS integration runtime
     7.8. Run SSIS packages in Azure
          7.8.1. Custom setup for Azure-SSIS integration runtime
          7.8.2. Provision Enterprise Edition for Azure-SSIS integration runtime
          7.8.3. Join Azure-SSIS integration runtime to a VNET
          7.8.4. Manage Azure-SSIS integration runtime
          7.8.5. Configure performance settings of Azure-SSIS integration runtime
          7.8.6. Run SSIS packages using SSIS activity
          7.8.7. Run SSIS packages using stored procedure activity
          7.8.8. Schedule Azure-SSIS integration runtime
          7.8.9. Develop licensed components for Azure-SSIS integration runtime
     7.9. Create triggers
          7.9.1. Create a schedule trigger
          7.9.2. Create a tumbling window trigger
8. Reference
     8.1. .NET
     8.2. PowerShell
     8.3. REST API
     8.4. Python
9. Resources
     9.1. FAQ
     9.2. Azure Roadmap
     9.3. Pricing
     9.4. MSDN forum
     9.5. Stack Overflow
     9.6. Request a feature
     9.7. Region availability
     9.8. Support options

Web Pages

Content	Type
Transform Data with Azure Data Factory Version 2 (ADFv2)	Event
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
4/17/2018	Continuous integration and deployment using Azure Data Factory \| Azure Friday YT: Microsoft Azure Gaurav Malhotra joins Scott Hanselman to discuss how you can follow industry-leading best practices to do continuous integration and deployment for your Extract Transform/Load (ETL) and Extract Load/Transform (ELT) workflows to...	0:09:11
1/25/2018	Cloud Tech 10 - 22nd January 2018 - Data Factory v2 Visual Tools, Accelerated Networking and more! CloudTechTV Like keeping up with Azure but struggling to find enough time? Then this is the video for you! I'm Mark Whitby, a Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft UK. Each week, I cover what's happening with Microsoft Azure in just 10 minutes,...	0:08:18
1/16/2018	Azure Friday \| Visually build pipelines for Azure Data Factory V2 YT: Microsoft Azure Gaurav Malhotra shows Donovan Brown how you can now visually build pipelines for Azure Data Factory V2 and be more productive by getting pipelines up & running quickly without writing any code. For more information, see: ADF v2:...	0:19:32
1/16/2018	Visually build pipelines for Azure Data Factory V2 Azure Friday Gaurav Malhotra shows Donovan Brown how you can now visually build pipelines for Azure Data Factory V2 and be more productive by getting pipelines up & running quickly without writing any code.For more information, see:ADF v2: Visual...	0:19:31
11/17/2017	Lift and shift SSIS to the cloud by using Azure Data Factory \| T138 SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) customers can easily lift and shift their SSIS packages to the cloud by using the new managed SSIS hosting capabilities in Azure Data Factory, as announced at Ignite. In this session, you’ll learn...	0:09:01
11/15/2017	Lift and shift SSIS to the cloud by using Azure Data Factory SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) customers can easily lift and shift their SSIS packages to the cloud by using the new managed SSIS hosting capabilities in Azure Data Factory, as announced at Ignite. In this session, you’ll learn...	0:09:00
10/23/2017	Cloud Tech 10 - 23rd October 2017 - AWS Cloud Service Map, Bing Custom Search, Cosmos DB and more! CloudTechTV Like keeping up with Azure but struggling to find enough time? Then this is the video for you! I'm Mark Whitby, a Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft UK. Each week, I cover what's happening with Microsoft Azure in just 10 minutes, or...	0:04:26
9/30/2017	Deep dive into SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) 2017 and beyond YT: Ignite See how to use the latest SSIS 2017 to modernize traditional on-premises ETL workflows, transforming them into scalable hybrid ETL/ELT workflows. We showcase the latest additions to SSIS Azure Feature Pack, introducing/improving Azure...	1:25:20
9/30/2017	Getting peak performance from your SQL Data Warehouse column store YT: Ignite In this session, learn the workings of the Column Store engine that powers the analytic queries in SQL Data Warehouse. Learn how you can maximize your query performance by loading into the column store optimally. The session also...	1:15:23
9/28/2017	New capabilities for data integration in the cloud YT: Ignite This session focuses on the needs of the data integrator whether that be for data warehousing/BI, advanced analytics or preparation of data for SaaS applications. We walk through, by example, a comprehensive set of new additions to...	1:35:27

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