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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)

Running SSIS packages in ADF

Data Factory provides a way to run SSIS packages: SSIS integration runtimes. This recipe will teach you how to use it. This recipe shows you the steps to download the Data Migration Assistant (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=53595#:~:text=Data%20Migration%20Assistant%20%28DMA%29%20enables%20you%20to%20upgrade,performance%20and%20reliability%20improvements%20for%20your%20target%20environment). At the time of writing, the Data Migration Assistant does not support SSIS 2019. Even if we could use it, it's always good to know how to do those steps manually.

To run the SSIS package in Azure, we need to set up a few things:

  • Create an SSIS catalog in Azure SQL Database.
  • Deploy SSIS packages to it.
  • Run SSIS packages.

Getting ready

This recipe assumes that you have a valid Azure subscription and have knowledge of ADF (ADF). It also assumes that you have read and completed the recipes of Chapter 4, Azure...