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SQL Server database connector overview

The SQL Server database connector is supported in Data Factory for Microsoft Fabric with the following capabilities.

Supported capabilities

Supported capabilities Gateway Authentication
Dataflow Gen2 (source/-) None
On-premises
Virtual network
Basic
Organizational account
Service principal
Workspace identity
Windows (Only for on-premises gateway)
Pipeline
- Copy activity (source/-)
- Lookup activity
- Get Metadata activity
- Script activity
- Stored procedure activity
None
On-premises
Virtual network
Basic
Organizational account
Service principal
Windows (Only for on-premises gateway)
Copy job (source/destination)
- Full load
- CDC
- Incremental load
- Append
- Merge
None
On-premises
Virtual network
Basic
Organizational account
Service principal
Windows (Only for on-premises gateway)

Note

The Service principal authentication only applies to SQL Server on Azure VMs.

To learn about how to connect to SQL Server database, go to Set up your SQL Server database connection.

To learn more about the copy activity configuration for SQL Server database in a pipeline, go to Configure in a pipeline copy activity.