Data Factory

Azure Data Factory allows you to manage the production of trusted information by offering an easy way to create, orchestrate, and monitor data pipelines over the Hadoop ecosystem using structured, semi-structures and unstructured data sources. You can connect to your on-premises SQL Server, Azure database, tables or blobs and create data pipelines that will process the data with Hive and Pig scripting, or custom C# processing. The service offers a holistic monitoring and management experience over these pipelines, including a view of their data production and data lineage down to the source systems. The outcome of Data Factory is the transformation of raw data assets into trusted information that can be shared broadly with BI and analytics tools.

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  1. Support ADF Projects in Visual Studio 2017

    Currently Visual Studio 2017 does not support Azure Data Factory projects.

    Despite the Azure SDK now being included in VS2017 with all other services the ADF project files aren't.

    Can you please include this feature so developers can upgrade from VS2015?

    Thanks

    2,441 votes
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    58 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

  2. Static IP ranges for Data Factory and add ADF to list of Trusted Azure Services

    It is not currently possible to identify the IP Address of the DF, which you need for firewall rules, including Azure SQL Server firewall....

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    88 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    started  ·  AdminThe Azure Team on UserVoice (Product Owner, Microsoft Azure) responded

    Great news – static IP range for Azure Integration Runtime is now available in all ADF regions! You can whitelist specific IP ranges for ADF as part of firewall rules. The IPs are documented here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/azure-integration-runtime-ip-addresses#azure-integration-runtime-ip-addresses-specific-regions. Static IP ranges for gov cloud and China cloud will be published soon!

    Please refer to this blog post on how you can use various mechanisms including trusted Azure service and static IP to secure data access through ADF:
    https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-data-factory/azure-data-factory-now-supports-static-ip-address-ranges/ba-p/1117508

    Service tag support will be made available in next few weeks. Please stay tuned!

    If your network security requirement calls for ADF support for VNet and cannot be met using Trusted Azure service (released in Oct 2019), static IP range (released in Jan 2020), or service tag (upcoming), please vote for VNet feature here: https://feedback.azure.com/forums/270578-data-factory/suggestions/37105363-data-factory-should-be-able-to-use-vnet-without-re

  3. Ability to Disable an Activity

    Please allow setting a certain activity to enable or disabled, pretty much like you can do in SSIS.

    This is important when you are developing and only want to execute a certain part of the pipeline for example

    822 votes
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    under review  ·  35 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

  4. Add Excel as source

    Add excel file as source.

    724 votes
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  5. Unit Testing for ADF Projects

    There has to be support for automated testing of Azure Data Factory pipelines - perhaps as part of Visual Studio ADF project suite.

    558 votes
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  6. Data factory should be able to use VNet without resorting to self hosted

    Self hosted makes a lot of sense when integrating on-premise data, however it's a shame to need to maintain a self-hosted integration runtime VM when wishing to leverage the extra security of a VNet i.e. firewalled storage accounts etc.

    Ideally the azure managed integration runtimes would be able to join a vnet on demand.

    521 votes
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    planned  ·  11 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

  7. XML file type in copy activity.. along with XML schema validation

    can we have a copy activity for XML files, along with validating schema of an XML file against XSD.. this would be helpful.. if schema validation is success then copy else fail the activity.. this will be useful for below scenarios..
    1. Blob to Blob
    2. Blob to SQL
    3. SQL to Blob

    if all above can work with specified schema that would be great...

    528 votes
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  8. Azure Data Factory - Google Analytics Connector

    Some customers have the necessity to extract information from Google Analytics in order to create a data lake or sql dw to gather marketing insights mixing another kind of data.

    Now we have some custom SSIS packages that are paid or developing some custom code.

    Or if it is not possible in Azure Data Factory, could have anoter way to extract this data in native connector in Azure … maybe Logic Apps

    479 votes
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  9. HITRUST Compliance with Azure Data factory

    In Azure Compliance offering sheet, I see Data factory is not compliance with HITRUST. Is there a roadmap to support it?

    482 votes
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  10. Add support for Power Query / Power BI Data Catalog as Data Store/ Linked Service

    Power Query is awesome! It would be a great feature to be able to output its result into either a SQL database or Azure (Storage or SQL).

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    11 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    started  ·  AdminThe Azure Team on UserVoice (Product Owner, Microsoft Azure) responded

    Please check the new capability we recently unveiled called Wrangling Data Flows, available in preview! Wrangling Data Flow allows you to discover and explore your data using the familiar Power Query Online mashup editor to do data preparation, and then execute at scale using Spark runtime.

    Sign up for preview access at: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=v4j5cvGGr0GRqy180BHbR9-OHbkcd7NIvtztVhbGIU9UNk5QM0dSWkFDSkFPUlowTFJMRVZUUUZGRi4u and check out more details at https://aka.ms/wranglingdfdocs

  11. Throw Error Activity

    If my pipeline orchestrates an asynchronous operation like processing an Azure Analysis Services model that the pattern is to start the operation asynchronously then loop and check the status. If the status is failed the REST API just says status=Failed but the REST API does not return an HTTP 500 status code so ADF does not fail. So I need a new Throw Error Activity component that will let me build an expression for the ErrorMessage property and throw an error message. Better yet there would be a property which does not throw an error if the property is set…

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  12. Snowflake connector as both source and sink

    Provide the capability to copy data from Blob to Snowflake data warehouse

    410 votes
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  13. Bitbucket Integration

    We need to use bitbucket for a project. We are mirroring our azure devops repo with the pipelines to bitbucket. It would be easier if there was integration with bitbucket.

    378 votes
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  14. Need of Execute SQL Task in Azure Data Factory v2

    We only have a execute stored procedure in ADFv2. But most of the time we don't want to create stored procedure for all of the primary ETL tasks, such as counting the no. of records from a table, Updating data into tables, creating tables, etc. There are many such activities need T-SQL Execution. It would be great if we have Execution SQL option.

    ADFv2 have the option to use variety of RDBMS source and sink systems such as MySQL, Oracle, etc., . ESQL would be the powerful task to have in Azure Data Factory V2 to be used in all…

    356 votes
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  15. Web and ODATA connectors need to support OAuth

    the web and odata connectors need to add support for OAuth ASAP. Most other Microsoft services (Office 365, PWA, CRM, etc, etc, etc) along with many other industry API's require the use of OAuth. Not having this closes the door to lots of integration scenarios.

    326 votes
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  16. Allow choosing logical AND or logical OR in activity dependencies

    We have activity dependencies today, but they are always logical AND. If we have Activity1 -> Activity 2 -> Activity3 and we want to say if any of these activities fail, run activity 4, it isn't straight forward. In SSIS, we can choose an expression and choose whether we need one or all conditions to be true when there are multiple constraints. We need similar functionality here. It can be achieved with a bit of creativity (repeat the failure activity as the single failure path after each of the original activities use the If Condition to write logic that would…

    323 votes
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  17. refreshing Azure Analysis Cube

    Azure Data Factory pipeline activity to refresh Azure analysis services cube partitions.

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  18. Increase the max number of activities per pipeline (ADF V2)

    As of now and according to the official documentation https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-subscription-service-limits#data-factory-limits there is Max activities per pipeline limit of (30), it'd be nice to increase this number to at least 500

    285 votes
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  19. Powershell Script support in Activity

    Please add support to run a Powershell Script as an activity inside the Azure DataFactory. It will help developers to break most of the shorting coming with scripting.

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  20. Support for Daylight Savings Time for Trigger Schedules

    Setting up the timing of a Trigger, you need to know how far away from UTC you are so you can specify the right time. That value changes for those of us that observe Daylight Savings Time.
    The dialog box for setting up a Trigger Schedule should instead have the following three inputs:
    1) the LOCAL time you want it to run
    2) the Time Zone
    3)Adjust for DST.

    THAT is the information people have at their disposal.
    To adjust for DST, I must EDIT all my Triggers manually to ensure they run at the right hour of the day…

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