The second major version of Azure Data Factory, Microsoft's cloud service for ETL (Extract, Transform and Load), data prep and data movement, was released to general availability (GA) about two ...

In response to developer feedback, Microsoft is taking a page from the growing visual, low-code development approach to simplify Big Data analytics in the cloud with Azure Data Factory. The new visual ...

For example, when a Synapse cluster is provisioned, ADLS capacity -- which can store Spark SQL tables -- is requisitioned along with it (as is Azure Data Factory). Spark SQL tables are immediately ...