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Prashant Kumar Mishra
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Prashant Kumar Mishra is an engineering architect at Microsoft. He has more than 10 years of professional expertise in the Microsoft data and AI segment as a developer, consultant, and architect. He has been focused on Microsoft Azure Cloud technologies for several years now and has helped various customers in their data journey. He prefers to share his knowledge with others to make the data community stronger day by day through his blogs and meetup groups.
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Introducing Synapse pipelines

Synapse pipelines are used to perform Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) operations on data. This service is similar to Azure Data Factory, but these pipelines can be created within Synapse Studio itself. In this section, we are going to learn how to create a pipeline for copying data from different sources to Azure Synapse Analytics. We will also see how we can use multiple activities within the same pipeline and create dependency endpoints to connect one activity with another activity in the pipeline.

The following screenshot shows a Copy data activity in a Synapse pipeline:

Figure 4.1 – A screenshot of a Synapse pipeline in Synapse Studio

Figure 4.1 – A screenshot of a Synapse pipeline in Synapse Studio

These pipelines comprise various components, and we are going to learn about these components in brief in the following sections.

Integration runtime

An Integration Runtime (IR) is a compute infrastructure used by Azure Data Factory or Synapse pipelines to provide data...

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Published in: Jun 2021Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781800205659

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Prashant Kumar Mishra

Prashant Kumar Mishra is an engineering architect at Microsoft. He has more than 10 years of professional expertise in the Microsoft data and AI segment as a developer, consultant, and architect. He has been focused on Microsoft Azure Cloud technologies for several years now and has helped various customers in their data journey. He prefers to share his knowledge with others to make the data community stronger day by day through his blogs and meetup groups.
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