A Lakeflow job whose continuous trigger launches a fresh run the moment the last one finishes. For keeping a pipeline running non-stop, Databricks prefers this to the pipeline's own Continuous mode.
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Terms in this definition
- Job
A sequence of steps executed together on one agent or runner, or on the server for agentless work. While running, each occupies one of your parallel jobs.
- Azure Functions trigger
Every function is started by exactly one thing. That thing might be a web call over HTTP, a schedule, the arrival of a blob, a message landing in a queue or a change in a database.
- LAST
Restricted to visual calculations, this DAX function reads a value from the final position along one of the visual's axes. Writing INDEX(-1) gives the same result.
- Pipeline
Groups activities logically so that, together, they move and transform data, either one after another or side by side; found in both Azure Data Factory and Microsoft Fabric.
- Databricks
Analytics platform built on Apache Spark where data is processed in notebooks; Unity Catalog is the governance model it recommends.