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Gathering data from different sources with the COPY command

Gathering data from different sources with the COPY command - Microsoft Fabric Tutorial

From the course: Learning Microsoft Fabric

Gathering data from different sources with the COPY command

- One of the most common activities in a pipeline is of course the copy command. The copy command is the most efficient way to move data. Microsoft has engineered the activity to handle large volumes of data by multi-processing tasks, so the activity manages to migrate data from the source to fabric. The copy command contains over a hundred different drivers to assist in copying data from a number of different sources, including third-party applications like Google Cloud, Salesforce, or ServiceNow. Of course, all Microsoft data sources are supported, including Dynamics, SharePoint or Cosmos DB. It contains a wizard to walk you through the steps, we'll just go through them here. Let's take a look at how to do this in Fabric. So we're going to go back to the pipeline that we just created, and we are going to add a copy command. So here I'm going to go and select my copy data, and I want to go ahead and add this to my canvas. I can use the assistant, but I want to show you the steps that…

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