Data Factory is a fully managed, highly available, highly scalable, and easy-to-use tool for creating integration solutions and implementing ETL phases. Data Factory helps create new pipelines in a drag and drop fashion using a user interface without writing any code; however, it still provides features to write code in your preferred language.
There are a few important concepts to learn about before using the Data Factory service, which we will be looking into in the following sections:
- Activities: Activities are individual tasks that enable the execution and processing of logic within a Data Factory pipeline. There are multiple types of activities. There are activities related to data movement, data transformation, and control activities. Each activity has a policy through which it can decide the retry mechanism and retry interval.
- Pipelines: Pipelines...