Skip to content
· 14 min watch
Ed Freeman By Ed Freeman Software Engineer III

Ed Freeman demonstrates data ingestion from an HTTP source to OneLake using Data Factory in Microsoft Fabric, exploring Lakehouse tables, files, and pipelines.

About this talk

Tutorial

In this video Ed Freeman continues the Microsoft Fabric End-to-End demo series by seeing how we can quickly ingest ~5GB of data from an unauthenticated HTTP data source into OneLake using Data Factory in Microsoft Fabric. We'll see the distinction between Tables and Files in a Fabric Lakehouse, and look at how we can preview data in the Lakehouse explorer.

The talk contains the following chapters:

  • 00:00 Introduction
  • 00:15 Dataset recap
  • 01:25 Workspace and pipeline artifacts
  • 01:57 Pipeline UI layout
  • 02:21 Copy data activity options
  • 03:07 Configure copy data activity source
  • 05:00 Configure copy data activity destination
  • 06:21 Add dynamic content for destination Lakehouse filepath
  • 08:21 Copy Data activity additional settings
  • 09:00 Manually trigger pipeline
  • 09:21 Alternative parameterized pipeline
  • 11:38 Reviewing pipeline run details
  • 12:10 Default workspace artifacts
  • 13:04 Viewing Lakehouse Files
  • 13:46 Roundup and outro

Microsoft Fabric End to End Demo Series:

From Descriptive to Predictive Analytics with Microsoft Fabric:

Microsoft Fabric First Impressions:

Decision Maker's Guide to Microsoft Fabric

and find all the rest of our content here.

About the presenter

Ed Freeman

Software Engineer III

Ed Freeman

Ed is a Data Engineer helping to deliver projects for clients of all shapes and sizes, providing best of breed technology solutions to industry specific challenges. He focusses primarily on cloud technologies, data analytics and business intelligence, though his Mathematical background has also led to a distinct interest in Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, and other related fields.

He also curates a weekly newsletter, Power BI Weekly, where you can receive all the latest Power BI news, for free.

Ed won the Cloud Apprentice of the Year at the Computing Rising Star Awards 2019.