Name of the connection.

Each connection name must be unique within the organization. Connection names can contain alphanumeric characters, spaces, and the following special characters: _ . + -,

Maximum length is 255 characters.

Description of the connection. Maximum length is 4000 characters.

You cannot run a

database ingestion and replication

task or

streaming ingestion and replication

task on a Hosted Agent or serverless runtime environment.

Select one of the following options:

Service Principal Authentication. Uses the client ID, client secret, and tenant ID to connect to Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2.
Shared Key Authentication. Uses the account key to connect to Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2.
Managed Identity Authentication. Select to authenticate using identities that are assigned to applications in Azure to access Azure resources in Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2.

The client ID of your application.

To use service principal authentication, specify the application ID or client ID for your application registered in the Azure Active Directory.

To use managed identity authentication, specify the client ID for the user-assigned managed identity. If the permission is provided by system-assigned managed identity, leave the field empty. If there is no system-assigned identity but only a single user-assigned managed identity, you may also leave the field empty.

The client secret key to complete the OAuth authentication in the Azure Active Directory.

The directory ID of the Azure Active Directory.

The account key for the Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 account.

You can select one of the following syntax:

/
for root directory
/dir1
dir1/dir2

There is no default directory.

Select one of the following endpoints:

Default is core.windows.net.