Connector overview

Data Factory in Microsoft Fabric offers a rich set of connectors that allow you to connect to different types of data stores. You can take advantage of those connectors to transform data in dataflows or move a PB-level of dataset with high-scale in a data pipeline.

Prerequisites

Before you can set up a connection in Dataflow Gen2 or a data pipeline, the following prerequisites are required:

• A Microsoft Fabric tenant account with an active subscription. Create an account for free.

• A Microsoft Fabric enabled Workspace. Create a workspace.

Supported data connectors in dataflows

Dataflow Gen2 provide data ingestion and transformation capabilities over a wide range of data sources. These data sources include various types of files, databases, online, cloud, and on-premises data sources. There are greater than 145 different data connectors, which are accessible from the dataflows authoring experience within the get data experience.

For a comprehensive list of all currently supported data connectors, go to Dataflow Gen2 connectors in Microsoft Fabric.

The following connectors are currently available for output destinations in Dataflow Gen2:

• Azure Data Explorer
• Azure SQL
• Data Warehouse
• Lakehouse

Supported data stores in data pipeline

Data Factory in Microsoft Fabric supports data stores in a data pipeline through the Copy, Lookup, Get Metadata, Delete, Script, and Stored Procedure activities. For a list of all currently supported data connectors, go to Data pipeline connectors in Microsoft Fabric.

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• How to copy data using copy activity
• Data source management