The Script Activity in Azure Data Factory
Learn about using the Script activity in Azure Data Factory to run DDL or DML statements.
2022-05-13
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Understanding Azure Data Factory Pricing
Learn how Azure Data Factory charges you for use and how to estimate what your charges would be based on a few examples.
2022-04-04
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2022-03-25
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Prevent Accidental Resource Deletion Using Locks in Azure Data Factory
Learn how to protect production resources from accidental changes in Azure Data Factory.
2022-03-16
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Exploring Knowledge Center in Azure Synapse Analytics
Introduction Azure Synapse Analytics is an enterprise analytics service that brings together popular data warehouse technologies and big data systems together. It provides SQL for enterprise data warehousing, Spark technologies for big data, Data explorer for analytics, Pipeline for data integration and ETL and ELT, and other popular Azure services including Power BI, CosmosDB, and […]
2022-03-11
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Using Logging with the Delete Activity in Azure Data Factory
This short piece shows how to add logging for the Delete activity and track which files or folders are deleted.
2022-02-04
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Working with Fail Activity in Azure Data Factory
Introduction In this article, we will talk about a newly introduced activity in Azure Data Factory, which is the fail activity. The fail activity is very useful to stop or fail the pipeline at the specified point. For example, a lookup activity might return no data or a switch activity executes the default block. We […]
2022-01-24
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Prevent Accidental Data Deletion in Azure Storage Container with Soft Delete Features
Learn about enabling soft-delete for your Azure Storage containers.
2022-01-21
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Working with an Azure Data Factory Meta-data Driven Pipeline
This article shows how to create a data driven ADF pipeline.
2021-11-22
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2021-11-17
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The String Distance I
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