The second major version of Azure Data Factory, Microsoft's cloud service ... The core unit of work in ADF is a pipeline, made up of a visual flow of individual activities. Activities are little ...

Azure Data Factory, Microsoft’s cloud-based data integration service, gained two new components earlier this year that enter preview this week: Mapping Data Flows and Wrangling Data Flows.

As for Mapping Data Flows, this builds on Azure Synapse Analytics’ existing Copy Activity functionality, improving the way Microsoft 365 data is readied for analysis. Mapping Data Flows will ...