Mostly asked Azure Data Factory Interview Questions and Answers

1. What is azure data factory used for ? Azure Data factory is the data orchestration service provided by the Microsoft Azure cloud. ADF is used for following use cases mainly : Data migration from one data source to other On Premise to cloud data migration ETL purpose Automated the data flow. There is huge […]
How to Install Self-Hosted Integration Runtime on Azure vm

Integration runtime is the powerhouse for the execution of any pipeline in the azure data factory. Self hosted integration runtime is one of the prominent choice when you wan to connect to few on premises data sources. Steps to install self hosted integration runtime in azure data factory is as follows : 1. Create self […]
What is Integration Runtime

Integration runtime is also knows as IR, is the one who provides the computer resources for the data transfer activities and for dispatching the data transfer activities in azure data factory. Integration runtime is the heart of the azure data factory. In Azure data factory the pipeline is made up of activities. An activity is […]
Triggers in Azure Data Factory

In the last post we have seen Debug Azure Data Factory Pipeline. Debugging will execute the pipeline manually. However in the production environment you must don’t manual triggering of the pipeline. You would like to schedule automatic execution’s of pipeline. This scheduling of the pipeline is provided by the Triggers in the ADF. In this […]
Debug Azure Data Factory Pipeline

Debugging is one of the key feature for any developer. To solve and test issue in the code developers uses the debug feature in general. Azure data factory also provide the debugging feature. In this tutorial I will take you through each and every minute details which would help you to understand the debug azure […]
Azure Data Factory Tutorial With Practical – Lesson 1

Welcome to my series of Azure Data Factory tutorial. In this ADF tutorial series I would going to take you through step by step guide to learn and master Azure data factory with practical examples. I will explain every concept with practical examples which will help you to make yourself ready to work as Azure […]
Variables in ADF Pipeline

Variables in the adf pipeline provide the functionality to temporary hold the values. They are used for similar reason like we do use variables in the programming language. Variables are available inside the pipeline and it can be set from inside the pipeline. Set Variable and append variable are two type of activities used for […]
Lookup Activity in ADF pipeline

Lookup activity in adf pipeline is generally used for configuration lookup purpose. It has the source dataset. Lookup activity used to pull the data from source dataset and keep it as the output of the activity. Output of the lookup activity generally used further in the pipeline for making some decision, configuration accordingly. You can […]
Azure Data Factory Tutorial – Copy activity with Example – Lesson 5

In this lesson 5 of our Azure Data Factory Tutorial for beginners series I will take you through how to create the most common copy pipeline in the ADF. I will also take you through step by step processes creating the various components needed to create the pipeline for example Linked Service, Dataset, integration runtime […]
Azure Cosmos DB

Overview Cosmos DB In todays world its very important that your application is fast, highly available. Examples of these applications need to be installed in datacenters that are closely deployed to their users in order to achieve low latency and high availability. Applications need to adapt to massive usage changes at peak hours in real […]