Provisioning Azure Data Factory
To get started with Azure Data Factory, you need to run an Azure Data Factory account. An Azure Data Factory account is comprised of the following key components:
- Linked services: A component that maintains the connection credentials to data sources. An example of this is a connection to a SQL database/text file.
- Dataset: The data that’s obtained after connecting to the data source using a linked service. An example of this is a group of tables or files connected via a linked service.
- Activity: A task that will process the dataset. An example of this is a copy activity that moves the data from a flat file to a database.
- Data flow: These are specific tasks that perform data transformations on datasets. An example of this is pivoting or sorting a dataset while it is being moved from source to destination. This can be done by a data flow transformation task.
- Integration runtime: This is the Azure Data Factory engine that...
