The scheduler built into Fabric that runs items like pipelines, notebooks and Dataflow Gen2 at chosen times. Each item may have more than one schedule, and you can set up notifications for failures.
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Terms in this definition
- Agents (classic) API
First-generation Foundry Agent Service API, based on threads, messages and runs. It is deprecated, replaced by conversations and responses, and retires on 31 March 2027.
- LIKE
Compares strings with a pattern that can contain the % and _ wildcards. Because it only understands character patterns, searching big volumes of text this way is much slower than using full-text search.
- Dataflow Gen2
A visual, low-code Microsoft Fabric item for preparing data, based on Power Query. It links to data sources, transforms the data and writes the output to targets like a lakehouse or a warehouse.
- Set
Secret permission in Key Vault for writing secrets; some older material refers to it as Create.
Related terms
- LSF
IBM Spectrum Load Sharing Facility, a job scheduler for HPC workloads that Azure CycleCloud supports.
- PBS
Portable Batch System. Azure CycleCloud can run this HPC job scheduler, in its PBS Pro form.
- SQL Agent
The job scheduler for SQL Server, offered on SQL Server on VMs and SQL Managed Instance but not on Azure SQL Database.