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Hands-On Data Warehousing with Azure Data Factory

By : Christian Cote, Michelle Gutzait, Giuseppe Ciaburro
Book Image

Hands-On Data Warehousing with Azure Data Factory

By: Christian Cote, Michelle Gutzait, Giuseppe Ciaburro

Overview of this book

ETL is one of the essential techniques in data processing. Given data is everywhere, ETL will always be the vital process to handle data from different sources. Hands-On Data Warehousing with Azure Data Factory starts with the basic concepts of data warehousing and ETL process. You will learn how Azure Data Factory and SSIS can be used to understand the key components of an ETL solution. You will go through different services offered by Azure that can be used by ADF and SSIS, such as Azure Data Lake Analytics, Machine Learning and Databrick’s Spark with the help of practical examples. You will explore how to design and implement ETL hybrid solutions using different integration services with a step-by-step approach. Once you get to grips with all this, you will use Power BI to interact with data coming from different sources in order to reveal valuable insights. By the end of this book, you will not only learn how to build your own ETL solutions but also address the key challenges that are faced while building them.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Resource group


To create a resource group, we need to log on to the Azure portal by typing the following URL in a browser: http://Portal.Azure.com.

From the resource panel, click on the + New icon and enter resource group in the search box, as shown in the following screenshot:

Clicking on the search results opens the Resource group blade. We simply need to click Create at the bottom of the screen.

As shown in the following screenshot, we'll fill the textboxes with the following properties:

  • Resource group name: ADFV2Book.
  • Subscription: Should be filled with the active subscription used to create the resource group.
  • Resource group location: We can choose any location we want. Location is not that important for a resource group but for compliance reasons, we should use a location where all our Azure artifacts will be created.

Once we click on Create at the bottom of the blade, we get the Resource group created notification, as shown in the following screenshot:

We can pin it to the dashboard if needed...