Data Factory has brought a quicker path to solutions by introducing standard pipeline templates that can be created through a simple GUI wizard. This is an exceptional feature to help streamline time to value from ingestion to decision making. Current Template List: Bulk Copy from Database Copy Data from Amazon S3 to Azure Data Lake Store Copy Data from Google BigQuery to Azure Data Lake Store Copy Data from HDFS to Azure Data Lake Store Copy Data from Netezzato Azure Data La

Microsoft recently released new functionality within VSCode to easily explore the contents of your Azure Data Lake. Previously, your options were to explore the Data Lake Store and U-SQL catalog via. Visual Studio or the Azure Portal. Visual Studio Code(VSCode) is a modern platform where you can develop on a multitude of languages with support for products such as Azure Data Lake Analytics. This blog post can be read on the talavant website here: https://www.talavant.com/expl

Microsoft has recently incorporated the well-renowned Databricks platform into Azure as a 1st class tool. 1st class being natively supported in other tools such as Azure Data Factory. Azure Databricks is a big step forward in the world of big data and data science. It is a unified Apache Spark platform that allows collaboration between Data Scientist and Data Engineers through notebooks that are integrated directly into the application. It allows you to code in  SQL, Scala, R