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Introduction to Azure Data Factory

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Introduction to Azure Data Factory

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- [Instructor] In this lesson, we're going to be looking at Azure Data Factory. So Azure Data Factory is a great tool for automating the movement and ingestion of data across services. It actually connects to a wide variety of tools. And although it's covered in more depth in the data tracks of the Azure certification, it is covered in the AZ-305 exam. Azure Data Factory is a serverless offering, meaning you only pay as you use it and this enables you to automate and simplify many steps in a data flow. Much of Data Factory's power and flexibility is in the many connects that allow you to integrate with a wide range of links, services, and tools. And out of the box it includes access to storage counts databases in the form of data sets. Data sets are used to define data sources, for example, CSV files or a database table. They can also be used to describe the output of data which can also be a CSV file or a data table.…

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