Which feature in SQL Server and Azure Synapse Analytics lets you run T-SQL queries against external data stores and makes those external sources appear as tables in a SQL database?

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. In helping students prepare for this exam, I have identified a number of commonly misunderstood ...

A metadata-driven ETL framework using Azure Data Factory boosts scalability, flexibility, and security in integrating diverse data sources with minimal rework. In today’s data-driven landscape, ...

Between April and July 2024, Microsoft observed Iranian state-sponsored threat actor Peach Sandstorm deploying a new custom multi-stage backdoor, which we named Tickler. Tickler has been used in ...

You can store credentials or secret values in an Azure Key Vault and use them during pipeline execution to pass to your activities. This feature relies on the data factory managed identity. Learn how ...

In this blog, I will show you step-by-step of extracting nested JSON data from REST API and loading into Azure Synapse Analytics using Azure Data Factory. Requirement: Recently one of my projects was ...

The second major version of Azure Data Factory, Microsoft's cloud service for ETL (Extract, Transform and Load), data prep and data movement, was released to general availability (GA) about two months ...