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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
7/2/2018	7/2/2018 Monitor Azure Data Factory pipelines using Operations Management Suite Microsoft Azure Blog Data Integration solutions can be complex with many moving parts involving complex data factories with multiple pipelines. Monitoring provides data to ensure that your data factory pipelines stay up…
6/29/2018	6/29/2018 Episode 235 - AI, Blockchain and Big Data discussion Azure Podcast Cale and Sujit talk about the new style of applications that leverage AI, Blockchain and Big Data services in Azure.Media file:...
6/27/2018	6/27/2018 Lift SQL Server Integration Services packages to Azure with Azure Data Factory Microsoft Azure Blog Data is vital to every app and experience we build today. With increasing amount of data, organizations do not want to be tied down by increasing infrastructural costs that come with it.
6/27/2018	6/27/2018 Azure Data Factory new capabilities are now generally available Microsoft Azure Blog Microsoft is excited to announce the general availability of new Azure Data Factory (ADF) features that will make data integration in the cloud easier than ever before with a browser-based drag...
6/22/2018	6/22/2018 Episode 234 - Migrations Azure Podcast Longtime guest on the show, Bill Zack joins us along with colleague Aaron Ebertowski to talk about Azure Migrations. Media file:...
6/21/2018	6/21/2018 Event trigger based data integration with Azure Data Factory Microsoft Azure Blog Event driven architecture (EDA) is a common data integration pattern that involves production, detection, consumption and reaction to events. Today, we are announcing the support for event based...
6/19/2018	6/19/2018 Azure Data ingestion made easier with Azure Data Factory’s Copy Data Tool Microsoft Azure Blog Azure Data Factory (ADF) is the fully-managed data integration service for analytics workloads in Azure.
6/15/2018	6/15/2018 Flow Tidbit – New connectors and SharePoint capabilities Hello All, Just keeping you in the loop , Microsoft recently released several new connectors: Azure Data Factory Azure Data Factory is a hybrid data integration service that allows you to...
5/23/2018	5/23/2018 Modernize and extend your ETL/ELT workflows with SSIS activities in ADF pipelines As we continue our march towards General Availability (GA) of SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) in Azure Data Factory (ADF), we are excited to announce the release of Execute SSIS Package...
5/14/2018	5/14/2018 Enhance productivity using Azure Data Factory Visual Tools Microsoft Azure Blog With Azure Data Factory (ADF) visual tools, we listened to your feedback and enabled a rich, interactive visual authoring and monitoring experience. It allows you to iteratively create,...
5/12/2018	5/12/2018 Iterative development and debugging with Azure Data Factory Azure Friday [0:07:38] Data Integration is becoming more and more complex as customer requirements and expectations are continuously changing. Gaurav Malhotra joins Scott Hanselman to discuss how users can now develop...
5/8/2018	5/8/2018 Data Factory Lookup activity supports a rich set of connectors Service Updates The Data Factory Lookup activity supports retrieving a dataset from any of the ADF-supported data sources.

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Azure Documentation

1. Data Factory Documentation
2. Switch to version 1 documentation
3. Overview
     3.1. Introduction to Data Factory
     3.2. Compare current version to version 1
4. Quickstarts
     4.1. Create data factory - User interface (UI)
     4.2. Create data factory - Copy Data tool
     4.3. Create data factory - Azure PowerShell
     4.4. Create data factory - .NET
     4.5. Create data factory - Python
     4.6. Create data factory - REST
     4.7. Create data factory - Resource Manager template
5. Tutorials
     5.1. 1 - Provision Azure-SSIS integration runtime
          5.1.1. User interface (UI)
          5.1.2. Azure PowerShell
     5.2. 2 - Copy data in cloud
          5.2.1. Copy Data tool
          5.2.2. User interface (UI)
          5.2.3. .NET
     5.3. 3 - Copy on-premises data to cloud
          5.3.1. Copy Data tool
          5.3.2. User interface (UI)
          5.3.3. Azure PowerShell
     5.4. 4 - Copy data in bulk
          5.4.1. User interface (UI)
          5.4.2. Azure PowerShell
     5.5. 5 - Copy data incrementally
          5.5.1. 5.1 - Copy from one table
               5.5.1.1. User interface (UI)
               5.5.1.2. Azure PowerShell
          5.5.2. 5.2 - Copy from multiple tables
               5.5.2.1. User interface (UI)
               5.5.2.2. Azure PowerShell
          5.5.3. 5.3 - Use change tracking feature
               5.5.3.1. User interface (UI)
               5.5.3.2. Azure PowerShell
     5.6. 6 - Transform data in cloud
          5.6.1. HDInsight Spark
               5.6.1.1. User interface (UI)
               5.6.1.2. Azure PowerShell
          5.6.2. Databricks Notebook
               5.6.2.1. User interface (UI)
     5.7. 7 - Transform data in virtual network
          5.7.1. User interface (UI)
          5.7.2. Azure PowerShell
     5.8. 8 - Control flow
          5.8.1. User interface (UI)
          5.8.2. .NET
6. Samples
     6.1. Code samples
     6.2. Azure PowerShell
7. Concepts
     7.1. Pipelines and activities
     7.2. Datasets and linked services
     7.3. Pipeline execution and triggers
     7.4. Integration runtime
8. How-to guides
     8.1. Author
          8.1.1. Visually author data factories
          8.1.2. Continuous integration and deployment
          8.1.3. Iterative development and debugging
     8.2. Connectors
          8.2.1. Amazon Marketplace Web Service
          8.2.2. Amazon Redshift
          8.2.3. Amazon S3
          8.2.4. Azure Blob Storage
          8.2.5. Azure Cosmos DB
          8.2.6. Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1
          8.2.7. Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2
          8.2.8. Azure Database for MySQL
          8.2.9. Azure Database for PostgreSQL
          8.2.10. Azure File Storage
          8.2.11. Azure Search
          8.2.12. Azure SQL Database
          8.2.13. Azure SQL Data Warehouse
          8.2.14. Azure Table Storage
          8.2.15. Cassandra
          8.2.16. Common Data Service for Apps
          8.2.17. Concur
          8.2.18. Couchbase
          8.2.19. DB2
          8.2.20. Drill
          8.2.21. Dynamics 365
          8.2.22. Dynamics CRM
          8.2.23. File System
          8.2.24. FTP
          8.2.25. GE Historian
          8.2.26. Google BigQuery
          8.2.27. Greenplum
          8.2.28. HBase
          8.2.29. HDFS
          8.2.30. Hive
          8.2.31. HTTP
          8.2.32. HubSpot
          8.2.33. Impala
          8.2.34. Informix
          8.2.35. Jira
          8.2.36. Magento
          8.2.37. MariaDB
          8.2.38. Marketo
          8.2.39. Microsoft Access
          8.2.40. MongoDB
          8.2.41. MySQL
          8.2.42. Netezza
          8.2.43. OData
          8.2.44. ODBC
          8.2.45. Oracle
          8.2.46. Oracle Eloqua
          8.2.47. Oracle Responsys
          8.2.48. Paypal
          8.2.49. Phoenix
          8.2.50. PostgreSQL
          8.2.51. Presto
          8.2.52. QuickBooks
          8.2.53. Salesforce
          8.2.54. Salesforce Service Cloud
          8.2.55. Salesforce Marketing Cloud
          8.2.56. SAP Business Warehouse
          8.2.57. SAP Cloud for Customer
          8.2.58. SAP ECC
          8.2.59. SAP HANA
          8.2.60. ServiceNow
          8.2.61. SFTP
          8.2.62. Shopify
          8.2.63. Spark
          8.2.64. SQL Server
          8.2.65. Square
          8.2.66. Sybase
          8.2.67. Teradata
          8.2.68. Vertica
          8.2.69. Web Table
          8.2.70. Xero
          8.2.71. Zoho
     8.3. Copy data
          8.3.1. Copy data using Copy Activity
          8.3.2. Copy Data tool
          8.3.3. Load Data Lake Storage Gen2
               8.3.3.1. Copy from Data Lake Storage Gen1
          8.3.4. Load SQL Data Warehouse
          8.3.5. Load Data Lake Storage Gen1
          8.3.6. Read or write partitioned data
          8.3.7. Format and compression support
          8.3.8. Schema and type mapping
          8.3.9. Fault tolerance
          8.3.10. Performance and tuning
     8.4. Transform data
          8.4.1. HdInsight Hive Activity
          8.4.2. HdInsight Pig Activity
          8.4.3. HdInsight MapReduce Activity
          8.4.4. HdInsight Streaming Activity
          8.4.5. HdInsight Spark Activity
          8.4.6. ML Batch Execution Activity
          8.4.7. ML Update Resource Activity
          8.4.8. Stored Procedure Activity
          8.4.9. Data Lake U-SQL Activity
          8.4.10. Databricks Notebook Activity
          8.4.11. Databricks Jar Activity
          8.4.12. Databricks Python Activity
          8.4.13. Custom activity
          8.4.14. Compute linked services
     8.5. Control flow
          8.5.1. Execute Pipeline Activity
          8.5.2. Filter Activity
          8.5.3. For Each Activity
          8.5.4. Get Metadata Activity
          8.5.5. If Condition Activity
          8.5.6. Lookup Activity
          8.5.7. Until Activity
          8.5.8. Wait Activity
          8.5.9. Web Activity
          8.5.10. Expression Language
          8.5.11. System variables
     8.6. Security
          8.6.1. Data movement security considerations
          8.6.2. Store credentials in Azure Key Vault
          8.6.3. Encrypt credentials for self-hosted integration runtime
          8.6.4. Data factory service identity
     8.7. Monitor and manage
          8.7.1. Monitor visually
          8.7.2. Monitor with Azure Monitor
          8.7.3. Monitor with OMS
          8.7.4. Monitor with SDKs
          8.7.5. Monitor integration runtime
          8.7.6. Monitor Azure-SSIS integration runtime
          8.7.7. Reconfigure Azure-SSIS integration runtime
     8.8. Create integration runtime
          8.8.1. Azure integration runtime
          8.8.2. Self hosted integration runtime
          8.8.3. Azure-SSIS integration runtime
     8.9. Run SSIS packages in Azure
          8.9.1. Join Azure-SSIS IR to a virtual network
          8.9.2. Enable Azure AD authentication for Azure-SSIS IR
          8.9.3. Configure high performance for Azure-SSIS IR
          8.9.4. Provision Enterprise Edition for Azure-SSIS IR
          8.9.5. Customize setup for Azure-SSIS IR
          8.9.6. Install licensed components for Azure-SSIS IR
          8.9.7. Run SSIS packages with Execute SSIS Package activity
          8.9.8. Run SSIS packages with Stored Procedure activity
          8.9.9. Schedule Azure-SSIS integration runtime
     8.10. Create triggers
          8.10.1. Create a schedule trigger
          8.10.2. Create a tumbling window trigger
          8.10.3. Create an event-based trigger
9. Reference
     9.1. .NET
     9.2. PowerShell
     9.3. REST API
     9.4. Python
10. Resources
     10.1. Ask a question - MSDN forum
     10.2. Ask a question - Stack Overflow
     10.3. Request a feature
     10.4. FAQ
     10.5. Roadmap
     10.6. Pricing
     10.7. Availability by region
     10.8. 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
5/12/2018	Iterative development and debugging with Azure Data Factory Azure Friday Data Integration is becoming more and more complex as customer requirements and expectations are continuously changing. Gaurav Malhotra joins Scott Hanselman to discuss how users can now develop and debug their Extract Transform/Load...	0:07:38
5/7/2018	Ingest, prepare & transform using Azure Databricks & Data Factory \| Azure Friday YT: Microsoft Azure Today's business managers depend heavily on reliable data integration systems that run complex ETL/ELT workflows (extract, transform/load and load/transform data). Gaurav Malhotra joins Scott Hanselman to discuss how you can...	0:11:05
5/6/2018	ETL 2.0 - Data Engineering for developers In this session we will demonstrate how a Data Engineer can develop and orchestrate the processes of data ingestion, data transformation and data loading at scale in Azure using Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Azure Databricks and Azure Data...	1:33:22
5/6/2018	Develop scalable analytical solutions with Azure Data Factory & Azure SQL Data Warehouse In this session you will learn how to develop data pipelines in Azure Data Factory and build a Cloud-based analytical solution adopting modern data warehouse approaches with Azure SQL Data Warehouse and implementing incremental ETL...	1:33:22
5/6/2018	New capabilities for modern data integration in the cloud This session focuses on the needs of the data integrator and data engineer whether that be for data warehousing & BI, advanced analytics of data for SaaS applications. We walk through a comprehensive set of new additions to Azure Data...	1:33:22
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

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