Introducing Synapse pipelines
Synapse pipelines are used to perform Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) operations on data. This service is similar to Azure Data Factory, but these pipelines can be created within Synapse Studio itself. In this section, we are going to learn how to create a pipeline for copying data from different sources to Azure Synapse Analytics. We will also see how we can use multiple activities within the same pipeline and create dependency endpoints to connect one activity with another activity in the pipeline.
The following screenshot shows a Copy data activity in a Synapse pipeline:
Figure 4.1 – A screenshot of a Synapse pipeline in Synapse Studio
These pipelines comprise various components, and we are going to learn about these components in brief in the following sections.
Integration runtime
An Integration Runtime (IR) is a compute infrastructure used by Azure Data Factory or Synapse pipelines to provide data...
