In this part of our Azure for Beginners guide, we will guide you through creating and using one of the most fundamental features of Azure: an Azure Storage Account. This is where you will be able to store all your (unstructured) data.

Not all data should be stored in an storage account. Generally, structured data (columns and rows) are best stored in a relational database. One of the most popular relational databases is an Azure SQL Database. In this part of Azure for Beginners, we will walk you through the steps of creating such an Azure SQL Database.

Azure Data Factory helps you move and transform your data, as well as automate and schedule this process through data flows and pipelines. In this part of our Azure for Beginners guide, we will guide you through the steps of creating an Azure Data Factory.

In this part of the Azure for Beginners guide, we will show you how all of the separate services we have set up will work together. We will do this by copying data from your Azure Storage Account to our Azure SQL Database with the help of Azure Data Factory.

In this part of our Azure for Beginners guide, we will show you how to take two CSV files from our Azure Storage Account, join them together, filter the joined data, and save the data in our Azure SQL Database. We will do this with the help of Azure Data Factory, using a data flow and pipeline.

In Azure Data Factory, ‘orchestration’ is the last piece of the puzzle. Orchestration is about managing and coordinating how and when different data processing tasks run. In this Azure for Beginners guide, we will show you how to orchestrate data pipelines in Azure Data Factory.