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What are triggers and bindings?

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What are triggers and bindings?

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- [Instructor] To fully understand Azure functions, we need to describe what triggers and bindings are. Triggers define how a function is executed. All triggers have associated data that includes more information about the related invocation. For example, an HTTP trigger allows you to access the inner HTTP request. There are several triggers that we can use for developing functions such as HTTP trigger, Blob Storage, queue, timer, and SQL, just to name a few. Each type of trigger has a unique configuration requirement. For example, again, the HTTP trigger requires you to configure the authorization level, while the SQL trigger requires you to configure the name of the table and the connection string needed for connecting to the database. Take into account that a function can only have one trigger. For this reason, if you want to execute the same logic through different triggers, you'll have to create several functions that share the same code. If you wish to read a complete list of…

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