Microsoft Data Stack Skill for Claude

Expert guidance for data engineering on Microsoft and Azure platforms. Covers ADF, Synapse, Fabric, SQL Server, ADLS Gen2, SSIS migration, and dbt-sqlserver.

When to Use This Skill

Activate when:

• Designing Azure Data Factory pipelines (linked services, integration runtimes, triggers)
• Choosing between Synapse Analytics, Microsoft Fabric, and SQL Server
• Implementing SQL Server CDC, temporal tables, or partition strategies
• Configuring ADLS Gen2 hierarchical namespace, ACLs, or storage integration
• Migrating SSIS packages to modern ETL (ADF, dbt, dlt)
• Setting up dbt-sqlserver or dbt-fabric adapters

Don't use for: General orchestration patterns (use data-pipelines), dbt modeling methodology (use dbt-transforms), Kafka/Flink streaming (use event-streaming), Azure DevOps CI/CD.

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