Azure Data Factory Product April 2021 Updates – At a Glance

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The Azure Data Factory (ADF) engineering team values each opportunity to engage the community, and to hear directly from customers, and how we can work together to build better products together with customers.  Thank you for working with the ADF team together to drive innovations in the product and helping others to be successful with ADF.

We are excited  to share with you some of these recent ADF Product updates and put together the at-a-glance view of all the ADF product innovations that shipped recently to help you discover and learn about the latest updates.

• New regions – We are excited to share that Azure Data Factory is now available in two additional Azure regions: Norway East and UAE North. With that, Azure Data Factory is now supported in more than 30 Azure regions, and growing. Learn more about Azure regions where Azure Data Factory is available.
  
  


• Azure Data Factory and Azure Purview Integration – Bringing Data Integration + Data Governance together enable organizations to derive tremendous insights into lineage, policy management, and more. We can’t wait to see you can achieve with using Azure Data Factory and Azure Purview together.
  
  
  
  • Analyze root cause and impact using ADF ETL lineage in Azure Purview
  
  
  • Bootstrap ETL process by bringing Azure Purview assets into Azure Data Factory
  
  
  • Bring SSIS ETL lineage into Azure Purview Data Map
    
    
  
  
  
  


• New connectivity and data flow improvements for Azure Data Factory
  
  
  
  • Copy – Authentication support for connecting to Azure Data Explorer, SFTP, REST, and HTTP
  
  
  • Azure Database for MySQL connector in Data Flow
  
  
  • Using SQL stored procedure as data source in Data Flow
  
  
  • Native support for Delta auto compact and optimized write options in Data Flow Sink transformation
  
  
  • Parse transformation in Data Flow
    
    
  
  
  
  


• Event trigger
  
  
  
  • Rename existing Blob Created/Deleted Event trigger to Storage Event Trigger
  
  
  • Custom topics in Azure Event Grid (preview)
  
  
  
  

We can’t wait to see what you build with Azure Data Factory.
Read more about the latest Azure Data Factory innovation on the Azure Data Factory blog.

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