There are three ways in which we can execute a pipeline in Data Factory:
i) Debug mode can be helpful when trying out pipeline code and acts as a tool to test and troubleshoot our code.
ii) Manual Execution is what we do by clicking on the ‘Trigger now’ option in a pipeline. This is useful if you want to run your pipelines on an ad-hoc basis.
iii) We can schedule our pipelines at predefined times and intervals via a Trigger. As we will see later in this article, there are three types of triggers available in Data Factory.