Integrating Data With Azure Data Factory

This demo will show how to setup a complete ADF pipeline. In this pipeline, we will:

1. Load data from a SQL Server table into the raw zone of a data lake
2. Conform the data in the data lake using an Azure Data Lake Analytics job
3. Load the conformed data into an Azure SQL Data Warehouse for use with BI tools

Along the way, we'll touch on subjects such as writing U-SQL queries, automating pipelines with triggers, and some of the pros and cons of serverless technologies.

Azure Data Factory is a great solution when: 

• I need to continuously load data from on-premise into the cloud, or from one place in the cloud to another
• I need the scalability and flexibility to accommodate any amount of data stored in any number of storage technologies
• I want to minimize the amount of custom code I develop so I can focus on the business logic