Azure Data Factory Interview Questions and Answers
Get a few common questions and possible answers about Azure Data Factory that you may encounter in an interview.
2022-06-03
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Randheer Parmar
Understanding the Mapping Data Flow Activity in Azure Data Factory
Learn about using Mapping Data Flows in Azure Data Factory.
2022-04-25
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Migrating SSIS packages to Azure - Lift and Shift using Azure Data Factory
Unlike an on premises SQL Server, Integration Services (SSIS) works very differently on Azure. If there are requirements to run our existing SSIS packages on Azure, then we need to understand our options. In this article we will talk about our options for migrating SSIS to Azure and what components are required to migrate SSIS packages. […]
2021-04-05 (first published: 2021-03-22)
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Using ADF to Upload Disparate CSV Files into Azure MySQL
In this article our objective is to showcase how to leverage Azure Data Factory (ADF) and a custom script to upload data in Azure MySQL database when we have CSV files with different schemas. As there is no straightforward way to upload data directly using ADF for this given scenario, it will actually help to […]
2021-03-04
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Adding and Dropping Columns II
I have this table in my SQL Server 2022 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CityList] ( [CityNameID] [int] NOT NULL IDENTITY(1, 1), [CityName] [varchar] (30) , [Country2] [char] (3), [stateprovince2] [char] (2), [Country] [char] (3), [stateprovince] [char] ) ON [PRIMARY] GOI decide to drop the stateprovince2 and country2 columns. What code should I use? See possible answers
