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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Azure Data Factory
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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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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Choosing Between SQL Server Integration Services and Azure Data Factory
In this article we look at the similarities and differences of SSIS and Azure Data Factory and provide some insight as to when you would use one over the other.
2022-01-21
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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How to Recover a Corrupted Azure Data Factory Integration Runtime
I would like to share my recent experience with Azure Data Factory (ADF) where AutoResolveIntegrationRuntime become corrupted and how did I recover it. I still don't know how the Integration Runtime (IR) was corrupted. However, if it happens, then this article will help you to solve the issue. Problem In general, the ADF AutoResolveIntegrationRuntime should […]
2024-09-02 (first published: 2021-11-05)
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Azure Data Factory Incremental Pipeline from Azure SQL Database to Databricks
In this tip find out how to use Azure Data factory to build an incremental pipeline from Azure SQL Database to Databricks.
2021-08-25
Working with Get Metadata Activity in Azure Data Factory
Learn how to gather metadata information about the files being processed in your ADF pipeline.
2021-08-20
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Upsert Operation in Cosmos DB using Azure Data Factory
This article covers the basics of upserting data in CosmosDB using Azure Data Factory.
2021-07-23
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Handling Row-level Errors in ADF Data Flows
If you are working with ADF (Azure Data Factory) data flows, then you may have noticed there was a new feature released in November 2020, which is useful to capture any error while inserting/updating the records in a SQL database. This article will describe how to setup the error row handling feature and why it's […]
2021-06-16 (first published: 2021-05-02)
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