Can't detect data source location. Please specify ExecutionLocation in CopyActivity - azure

Question

I was trying to use the Azure data factory to copy data from azure sql database to Azure search index.
I have created the pipeline, dataset and linked services correctly.
I am getting following error message after pipeline/activity execution:
Can't detect data source location. Please specify ExecutionLocation in CopyActivity.
Input Dataset
{
"name": "Input-notifyDB",
"properties": {
"structure": [
{
"name": "topicid",
"type": "String"
},
{
"name": "createdby",
"type": "String"
}
],
"published": false,
"type": "AzureSqlTable",
"linkedServiceName": "Source-notifyDB",
"typeProperties": {},
"availability": {
"frequency": "Minute",
"interval": 15
},
"external": true,
"policy": {}
}
}
Output Dataset:
{
"name": "OutputD-notifyDB",
"properties": {
"structure": [
{
"name": "id",
"type": "String"
},
{
"name": "sender",
"type": "String"
}
],
"published": false,
"type": "AzureSearchIndex",
"linkedServiceName": "Destination-notifyDB",
"typeProperties": {
"indexName": "test"
},
"availability": {
"frequency": "Minute",
"interval": 15
},
"external": false,
"policy": {}
}
}
Pipeline:
{
"name": "Copy_notifyDB",
"properties": {
"activities": [
{
"type": "Copy",
"typeProperties": {
"source": {
"type": "SqlSource",
"sqlReaderQuery": "select convert(varchar(25), topicid) topicid, createdby from [vMessageDetail]"
},
"sink": {
"type": "AzureSearchIndexSink"
},
"translator": {
"type": "TabularTranslator",
"columnMappings": "topicid:id,createdby:sender"
},
"parallelCopies": 8
},
"inputs": [
{
"name": "Input-notifyDB"
}
],
"outputs": [
{
"name": "OutputD-notifyDB"
}
],
"policy": {
"timeout": "1.00:00:00",
"concurrency": 1,
"executionPriorityOrder": "NewestFirst",
"style": "StartOfInterval",
"retry": 3,
"longRetry": 0,
"longRetryInterval": "00:00:00"
},
"scheduler": {
"frequency": "Minute",
"interval": 15
},
"name": "Activity-0-_Custom query_->test"
}
],
"start": "2017-05-22T10:17:00Z",
"end": "2017-05-23T18:30:00Z",
"isPaused": false,
"pipelineMode": "Scheduled"
}
}
Any idea how to resolve this error?

Answer 1

The message means, in the copy activity within the pipeline, use the executionLocation property within typeProperties (peer of source and sink) to specify the region, like "executionLocation": "East US". See docs here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/data-factory-data-movement-activities#a-nameglobalaglobally-available-data-movement