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Understanding data ingestion components

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Understanding data ingestion components

- [Instructor] Microsoft has several technologies for data ingestion, transformation and staging. Let's see some of them. Let's start with Azure Data Factory as this tool is related to data ingestion and is therefore one of the first one in the data flow. There should be a lot of questions about Data Factory, so it's important to know the service well. Azure Data Factory is a data ingestion, transformation and orchestration-managed service on the cloud for data engineers, perfect for data integration workflows. It can ingest large amount of raw data from several sources, both on premises and in the cloud. It has connectors for most Azure services and even services from cloud competitors, such as Google and AWS, dozens of relational and non-relational database and data warehouses, such as SQL Server, Oracle, Cassandra, MongoDB and SAP HANA, several SaaS applications, such as Dynamics, Jira and Salesforce. And it also…

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