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Moving and Transforming Data with Azure Data Factory

In this hands-on lab scenario, you are a data engineer for Awesome Company. They would like to move some sales data from one Azure SQL database to another for archiving and analysis. You have been tasked with creating an Azure Data Factory pipeline to accomplish this task and to perform data transformations along the way. Performing the actions of this hands-on lab will help you become familiar with using Azure Data Factory to perform data migrations and transformations.

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Clock icon Intermediate
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Clock icon 1h 0m
Last updated
Clock icon Sep 03, 2025

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  1. Challenge

    Create a Destination Table for the Archived Data

    Create a table in the acweb_arch database for the data to be sent to. If you want to choose your own source and destination tables, feel free to create one according to your own specifications. Otherwise, copy and paste the code provided in the lab guide.

  2. Challenge

    Create a Pipeline to Move the Data

    Create a pipeline that moves data from a table in the production Azure SQL database (acweb) to the archive table you created in the destination database (acweb_arch).

  3. Challenge

    Convert the Date Columns

    The requesting team has specified that exact timestamps are not wanted in the archive environment because their analysis is only granular down to the day. Within your pipeline, perform a conversion for any columns of the datetime type so that only the day, month, and year are retained.

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