Prepare the data to ingest

Now that we've created our cluster and folder, we must prepare some data to work with. For this book, we're using the data warehouse data available in the on-premise SQL database we created in the first chapters. This will allow us to see another integration runtime: self-hosted. We'll copy the data in the Azure storage account created previously in this chapter.

Setting up the folder in the Azure storage account

Going back to the Azure portal, we'll create a blob container and call it sales-data, as shown in the following screenshot:

Enter a valid name: sales-data. Click on OK when done. This creates the container in the adfv2book blob storage account, as shown in this screenshot...