Bringing data to your Synapse SQL pool using Copy Data tool

Copy Data tool makes it very easy to bring your data to Azure Synapse. This is not that different to using the Copy activity of Azure Data Factory, except you do not have to spin up another service for data ingestion in Azure Synapse. You need to make sure you have applied all of the technical requirements before you start following these steps:

1. Click on Copy Data tool as highlighted in Figure 3.1. This will open a new window where you need to provide the source and destination connection details.
2. Provide an appropriate name for your pipeline, along with a brief description.
3. You can choose to run this pipeline once only, or you can schedule it to run regularly. For this example, we are going to schedule our pipeline to run on a daily basis.

   Click on Run regularly on schedule and select the Schedule trigger type.

4. Provide an appropriate value for Start Date (UTC). This is auto populated with the current date...