Trigger Batches

By their nature, batch processes run when specific conditions occur; they do not run continuously. Specifying these conditions can also be described as defining a trigger for these processes. There are two types of triggers and they are as follows:

• Schedule triggers: Here, the conditions are the occurrence of a specific date or time.
• Event trigger: Here, the condition is the occurrence of something specific, such as the creation of a new Blob on a storage account.

Note

It is also common to use the term “triggers” to refer to event triggers, while “schedules” refers to schedule triggers.

You will explore schedule triggers in the Scheduling Data Pipelines in ADF or Synapse Pipelines section later. You will simply focus on event triggers for now.

Note

This section primarily focuses on the Trigger batches concept of the DP-203: Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure exam.

Many services in Azure allow the specification...