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Mark Kromer on 12-23-2020 02:38 PM

"Fill Down" is an operation common in data prep and data cleansing meant to solve the problem with data sets when you wa...

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Linda_Wang on 12-11-2020 05:01 AM

Azure Data Factory enables Azure Database for PostgreSQL in data flow, adds REST connector as sink, and provides new opt...

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Mark Kromer on 12-08-2020 01:19 PM

Azure Data Factory has updated data flow connectors for Delta Lake and Common Data Model (CDM) as Generally Available (G...

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Ye Xu on 12-01-2020 09:59 PM

Azure Data Factory copy activity provides an option for you to do additional data consistency verification to ensure the...

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Ye Xu on 12-01-2020 08:00 PM

You can log your copied file names and skipped file names via copy activity.

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Abhishek Narain on 11-23-2020 03:27 AM

Managed identity authentication in databricks linked service

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Mark Kromer on 11-21-2020 03:32 PM

ADF Data Flows have a number of built-in facilities to handle row-level errors when writing data to Azure SQL DB for you...

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DanielPerlovsky on 11-11-2020 04:08 PM

Starting this week in ADF, the zooming in data flows is greatly improved allowing for better management of complex graph...

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Mark Kromer on 11-01-2020 08:02 PM

Azure Data Factory now allows you to cache data in a data flow sink that can be accessed as cached data via expressions ...

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ChenyeCharlieZhu on 10-30-2020 03:44 PM

Time Zone and Daylight Saving adjustment is coming to Azure Data Factory. Now you can create a new Schedule trigger in a...

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Mark Kromer on 10-29-2020 08:56 PM

Part 3 of 3 focused on performance profiles and tuning Azure Data Factory data flows. In this post, I'll focus on tuning...

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ChenyeCharlieZhu on 10-26-2020 10:03 AM

Use the combination of Rerun and newly introduced Cancelling of Tumbling Window Trigger run to resolve hanging/blocking ...

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Linda_Wang on 10-23-2020 12:00 AM

Azure Data Factory adds support for MongoDB Atlas connector as copy activity source.

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Mark Kromer on 10-14-2020 10:51 PM

Azure Data Factory Data Flows perform data transformation ETL at cloud-scale. This blog post takes a look at the perform...

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Mark Kromer on 10-12-2020 12:56 PM

ADF has connectors for Parquet, Avro, and ORC data lake file formats. However, datasets used by Copy Activity do not cur...

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DanielPerlovsky on 10-05-2020 01:34 PM

New this week in Azure Data Factory: Generate a rank column for your data using the rank transformation and find values ...

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Mark Kromer on 09-25-2020 04:42 PM

Azure Integration Runtimes are ADF and Synapse entities that define the amount of compute you wish to apply to your data...

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Mark Kromer on 09-24-2020 05:09 PM

Next week, the Microsoft Azure Data Factory team will release these 2 new native data flow connectors to continue to mak...

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DanielPerlovsky on 09-15-2020 08:54 AM

Updates are coming to the data flow expression building experience that will improve developer productivity and address ...

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Mark Kromer on 09-11-2020 01:56 PM

ADF Data Flows Expression Builder is getting some new enhancements next week. Here's a sneak peek at what's coming.

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DanielPerlovsky on 09-08-2020 04:08 PM

New this week in Azure Data Factory: you can now see what resources reference the artifact you are editing.

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Mark Kromer on 09-06-2020 09:25 PM

Azure Data Factory adds support to Data Flows for "no quote character" in DelimitedText datasets for both source and sin...

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ChenyeCharlieZhu on 09-03-2020 12:40 AM

My pipeline defines a failure path and incorporate error handling, it still shows pipeline runs failed. Why?

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Linda_Wang on 08-31-2020 10:31 AM

Azure Data Factory enriches Snowflake data integration with Mapping Data Flow support. You can now use Snowflake connect...

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DanielPerlovsky on 08-29-2020 12:49 PM

Azure Data Factory now allows for a historical view of past debug runs and a choice of cluster when debugging data flows...

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DanielPerlovsky on 08-06-2020 11:53 AM

You can now use global parameters in Azure Data Factory! Global parameters are constants across a data factory that can ...

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DanielPerlovsky on 07-31-2020 12:02 PM

The Azure Data Factory team is proud to announce the following features now available in the ADF UX: Array support for m...

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Ye Xu on 07-19-2020 11:52 PM

Azure Data Factory now supports copying new files only via copy activity in 4 different data ingestion scenarios.

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Linda_Wang on 07-17-2020 07:20 AM

Azure Data Factory now supports reading data from XML files in copy activity and mapping data flow.

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Mark Kromer on 07-16-2020 10:37 AM

Managed Virtual Networks and Managed Private endpoints are now available in Azure Data Factory via the Azure Integration...

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in New ADF pipeline consumption report on 01-15-2021

This is great thank you however many customer require this breakdown in the billing portal. Perhaps this could be implemented via tags (bit like annotations) at the pipeline level which could be used to breakdown costs in the billing page?

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in ADF Adds Support for Inline Datasets and Common Data Model to Data Flows on 01-14-2021

@Quentin_Fisher I had bit longer session with support regarding MS providing a work around for this. While they were helpful and appreciated their support, it's pretty much up to us to make the scripts to work around. We first tried to use databricks and python to handle but was too cumbersome for s...

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in How to Handle Evolving Database Schemas in your ETL with Azure Data Factory on 01-12-2021

Hi Mark, Great video! Thanks for it. Is it possible to do an aggregate transformation in this case when we don't have schema input? I'm having multiples source tables as parameters "tableName". I would like to union them and group by after. I tried to use the aggregation but it does not show any col...

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in New data flow functions for dynamic, reusable patterns on 01-11-2021

@Piotr_Kalinski The Merge transformation in my screenshot is just the name I gave to my Union transform. You must branch off your stream and then use a Select to pick the columns you want to keep for your hash in order to use columns() in the hash function.

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in ADF Adds Support for Inline Datasets and Common Data Model to Data Flows on 01-11-2021

I had the same issue, and replacing ":" with "-" in the file name and the model.json fixed the issue temporarily. @Mark Kromer @ADF2020 Any update on timing of fix or progress/suggestions from folks on scripts to rename all filenames? Thanks@Donald_Parish and @RamonMA1360

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