Linked Service in Azure Data Factory

Linked Service provides Azure data factory with basic connection information required to connect external source. There are multiple ways to create a Linked Service in Azure - Via Manage in Azure Data Factory UI, Power Shell, Azure Portal.

Data Store Linked Service can be used to configure connection setup for data stores such as relational databases, Azure blob, on-prem FTP servers, HDFS, and many more.

Compute environments supported in ADF can be configured using Compute Linked Service. Azure Databricks, Azure Batch, HD Insights, Azure ML, and Azure Data lake Analytics are the platforms supported as of today.

Parameterizing Linked Service

The ability to parameterize a linked service makes it an extremely powerful utility. In a DW/BI, It is a fairly common scenario to have multiple source data systems using a sing RDBMS system, Oracle for instance. Using Parameters, we can configure a single linked service to connect to multiple homogeneous data systems. Parameter values can be set at datasets using this parameterized Linked Service. There is also a provision to set a default value for a parameter. Below snippets show the parameter section available while creating a new linked service.

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