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ETL with Azure Cookbook

By : Christian Cote, Matija Lah, Madina Saitakhmetova
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ETL with Azure Cookbook

By: Christian Cote, Matija Lah, Madina Saitakhmetova

Overview of this book

ETL is one of the most common and tedious procedures for moving and processing data from one database to another. With the help of this book, you will be able to speed up the process by designing effective ETL solutions using the Azure services available for handling and transforming any data to suit your requirements. With this cookbook, you’ll become well versed in all the features of SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) to perform data migration and ETL tasks that integrate with Azure. You’ll learn how to transform data in Azure and understand how legacy systems perform ETL on-premises using SSIS. Later chapters will get you up to speed with connecting and retrieving data from SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters, and even show you how to extend and customize the SSIS toolbox using custom-developed tasks and transforms. This ETL book also contains practical recipes for moving and transforming data with Azure services, such as Data Factory and Azure Databricks, and lets you explore various options for migrating SSIS packages to Azure. Toward the end, you’ll find out how to profile data in the cloud and automate service creation with Business Intelligence Markup Language (BIML). By the end of this book, you’ll have developed the skills you need to create and automate ETL solutions on-premises as well as in Azure.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Connecting SQL Management Studio to Azure SQL

This recipe will show you how to connect to our Azure SQL database from your computer.

Getting ready

This recipe assumes that you have installed SSMS.

How to do it…

This is a very short and simple recipe! Let's begin by opening SSMS:

  1. We're going to connect to the Azure database that we created in the previous recipe, Creating a SQL Azure database. Log into your Azure subscription and navigate to the ETLInAzureCookBook resource group.
  2. Click on the AdventureWorksLT SQL database to open its blade. Copy the server name found at the top right as shown in the following screenshot:

    Figure 2.14 – Get the server name from the Azure subscription

  3. Using SSMS, log into the server using the username and password that we used in Step 7 of the previous recipe: Creating a SQL Azure database. Once connected, the Object Explorer shows the database and its related objects. Expanding the Tables folder lists...