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alfBI
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3 years ago
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Data Factory - SQL Server Source (Gateway)

Hi, 

 

I am trying to develop a Fabric Data Factory Pipeline getting data from a source placed on a on-premise SQL Server.

 But when I establish the connection I don't see the way to define the gateway (as it should, otherwise I have no idea how it is expected he found it 🙂 )

 

 

Any idea about what am I missing here to use a on-premise database source on a Fabric Data Factory Pipeline?

 

Regards

 

 

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    • alfBI's avatar
      alfBI
      Responsive Resident

      Hi,

       

      Thx for the link. I missed it. Effectively there is some significant difference with ADF with regard integrated runtimes

       

      good news are that on-premise data gateway support feature seems to be on the roadmap and currently in progress. So we will have to wait a bit or use Dataflows as workaround.....

       

      Thx

       

       

  • Hi,

     

    I have the same issue. What is the proper way to connect to the On-Prem SQL Server? 

      • ScottPowellECU's avatar
        ScottPowellECU
        Advocate II

        I have no experience with ADF as we don't really use Azure. I'm super curious - for folks that have used both ADF and Dataflows via an on-prem gateway, is ADF significantly faster?

         

        It takes a pretty long time to copy data across via our gateway servers. I'm hoping ADF is at least an order of magnitude faster.

         

        Thanks,

        Scott

  • germo's avatar
    germo
    Advocate IV

    is there a roadmap when the "On-premises Data Gateway(in design)" could be available?
    Are there any workarounds to copy data from on premise to fabric?
    Power BI has a gateway, it works fine. But it can't be used with fabric.

    Or maybe there is am easy way to first export from on premise SQL Server into Parquet file and then to upload it?

  • germo's avatar
    germo
    Advocate IV

    I created a "Dataflow Gen2", which works like Power Query. I used the "On-premises data gateway" as source, Lakehouse as destination, and this works fine.