Using Azure Data Factory to import data

Data Factory pipelines and Synapse pipelines have almost identical features. The only major difference lies in how you create your pipeline: you need to spin up another resource in Azure if you want to use Data Factory for data ingestion, whereas you can create pipelines within Synapse directly without leaving your Synapse workspace.

As we have already covered Copy Data tool in Synapse, which is exactly like Copy Data tool in Data Factory, in this section, we will create a pipeline to bring the data to Synapse. Make sure you have already satisfied all the prerequisites mentioned in the Technical requirements section:

1. Log in to the Azure portal, at https://portal.azure.com.
2. Click on Create a resource on the Azure home page and search for Data Factory in the Search Marketplace bar.
3. Select Data Factory from the search results and then click on Create.
4. Select the subscription and resource group where you want to create your...