Scheduling Synapse pipelines

Azure Synapse pipelines allow you to run your pipeline just once or trigger it manually whenever you need to run it. However, Synapse pipelines enable you to schedule the pipelines to run at regular intervals as well.

With Synapse pipelines, it's just a matter of a few clicks to schedule your pipeline. The following instructions will help you in scheduling your pipeline:

1. Go to the Triggers page under the Monitor tab in Synapse Studio and click on + New at the top of the screen, as illustrated in the following screenshot:
   

   Figure 4.27 – A screenshot of the Triggers page in Synapse Studio

2. Provide a name and description for your trigger. It's better to keep your pipeline's line appended to the trigger's name so that in the case of any failure it will be easy to identify the corresponding pipeline. The fields are shown in the following screenshot:
   

   Figure 4.28 – Creating a trigger for the Pipeline_Gen2_Synapse pipeline...