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XhevahirMehalla
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5 days ago

Difference between data flow gen and Pipeline Data Flows

For some reason I yet want to understand the difference between  Fabric Data Flow gen 2 and Pipelines Data Flows in Fabric.   Which want to use?
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AvdBerg
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5 days ago

Hi XhevahirMehalla​ 

When you are saying "Pipeline Data Flows" do you mean the Dataflow activity you drop onto a Data Factory pipeline canvas in Fabric. That activity has no transformation engine of its own, it just points at and triggers a Dataflow Gen2 item you've already built. Same Power Query engine, just orchestrated inside a bigger workflow alongside Copy, Notebook, Stored Procedure, and so on. There is no standalone "Mapping Data Flow" activity in a Fabric pipeline.

 

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