- Pipeline: It acts as a carrier in which we have various processes taking place.
This individual process is an activity.
- Activities: Activities represent the processing steps in a pipeline. A pipeline can have one or multiple activities. It can be anything i.e process like querying a data set or moving the dataset from one source to another.
- Datasets: Sources of data. In simple words, it is a data structure that holds our data.
- Linked services: These store information that is very important when it comes to connecting an external source.
For example: Consider SQL server, you need a connection string that you can connect to an external device. you need to mention the source and the destination of your data.