Data Factory GetMetadata activity supports more sources and metadata options
Published date: May 08, 2018
The Azure Data Factory GetMetadata activity now supports retrieving a rich set of metadata from the following objects. You can use it in the scenarios of validating the metadata information of any data, or triggering a pipeline when data is ready.
- File or folder metadata in the file storages of:
- Azure Blob storage
- Azure Data Lake Store
- Azure Files
- File system
- FTP
- SFTP
- Table metadata in the databases of:
- Azure SQL Database
- Azure SQL Data Warehouse
- SQL Server
For more information, including the set of metadata options for each object type, see the GetMetadata activity documentation.