Question

What are the different components used in Azure Data Factory?

Answer 1

Azure Data Factory consists of several numbers of components. Some components are as follows:

• Pipeline: The pipeline is the logical container of the activities.
• Activity: It specifies the execution step in the Data Factory pipeline, which is mainly used for data ingestion and transformation.
• Dataset: A dataset specifies the pointer to the data used in the pipeline activities.
• Mapping Data Flow: It specifies the data transformation UI logic.
• Linked Service: It specifies the descriptive connection string for the data sources used in the pipeline activities.
• Trigger: It specifies the time when the pipeline will be executed.
• Control flow: It is used to control the execution flow of the pipeline activities.