| title | description | ms.reviewer | ms.author | author | ms.topic | ms.custom | ms.date | ms.search.form | |||
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Connector overview |
Learn about data connectors. |
DougKlopfenstein |
jianleishen |
jianleishen |
overview |
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11/15/2023 |
product-data-factory |
Data Factory in [!INCLUDE product-name] 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.
Before you can set up a connection in Dataflow Gen2 or a data pipeline, the following prerequisites are required:
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A Microsoft Fabric tenant account with an active subscription. Create an account for free.
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A Microsoft Fabric enabled Workspace. Create a workspace.
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.
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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
Data Factory in [!INCLUDE product-name] 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.
Note
Currently, a pipeline on managed VNet and on-premises data access with a gateway aren't supported in Data Factory for Microsoft Fabric.