Getting Started with Azure Data Factory

Originally published at https://adamtheautomator.com by Victor Silva on November 16, 2021.

Nowadays, data is the new oil, but how does this affect a business transitioning to the cloud? or what happens when you migrate to the cloud with the raw and disorganized data stored in the different storage systems? Fortunately, Microsoft Azure Data Factory has answered these questions.

Microsoft Azure Data Factory offers an extract-transform-load (ETL) and data integration services. These services allow you to build data-driven workflows called data pipelines.

Sounds good? Let’s explore more about how awesome Azure Data Factory is!

If you’d like to follow along with the step-by-step tutorial, be sure you have an Azure subscription. If you don’t have one, you can register for a free Azure account.

What is Azure Data Factory?

In a nutshell, Azure Data Factory provides a cloud-based data integration service that orchestrates the migration and transformation of data between different data stores and compute resources.

One of the interesting actions that you make with Azure Data Factory is to copy data to and from different Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications, on-premises data stores and, cloud data stores. And…