The second major version of Azure Data ... in ADF is a pipeline, made up of a visual flow of individual activities. Activities are little building blocks, providing flow and data processing ...

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 ... 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 ...

allow that data to be used by applications running on Azure without physically moving the data, Goude said. “Mainframes are typically used for the most critical data and workloads,” she said.