Linked service

The blob storage linked service is much easier to create as we're not using the default integration runtime that came with the factory. Go to the Connections and create a new linked service. Choose Azure Blob Storage from the Data Store tab as shown in the following screenshot and click on Continue:

Name it Blob_AzureV2Book_Sales and adjust the other properties as shown in the following screenshot. Click on Test connection to make sure that everything works properly, and click on Finish when done. That's it! We created the linked service in one step, much simpler than the one on SQL Server on-premise.

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