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Glossary

Term Explanation
Azure IR The Integration Runtime (IR) is the compute infrastructure used by Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse pipelines to provide data integration capabilities (Data Flow, Data movement, Activity dispach, SSIS package execution) across different network environments
Blobs Binary large Object: Blobs are files for the cloud
Azure Data Lake Storage
Azure Cosmos DB
Connection String includes the authorization information required for your application to access data in an Azure Storage account at runtime using Shared Key authorization
OLAP is a technology that organizes large business databases and supports complex analysis.
OLTP online transaction processing is a database that a business uses to store all its transactions and records.
SMB The Server Message Block protocol is a network file sharing protocol that allows applications on a computer to read and write to files and to request services from server programs in a computer network
integer surrogate keys Example auto increment numbers (no meaning/attachment)
Event Hub A big data streaming platform and event ingestion service
NSG Network Security Group is a capability of Azure virtual networks that filters network traffic to and from Azure resources in an Azure virtual network.