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Introduction to Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 Connector
You can use Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 Connector to securely read data from or write to Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2.
Use Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 Connector to read and write flat files and complex files such as Avro, JSON, ORC, and Parquet.
You can use the Delta file format to read a Delta Lake or create a Delta Lake. You can use the Document file format to read PDF files. You can also use the Icerberg file format when you run a mapping to read from and write to Apache Icerberg files.
You can use Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 objects as sources and targets in mappings and mapping tasks.
You can switch mappings to advanced mode to include transformations and functions that enable advanced functionality. A mapping in advanced mode can run on an advanced cluster hosted on Microsoft Azure, local cluster, or a self-service cluster.