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Azure Data Factory Cookbook

By : Dmitry Anoshin, Dmitry Foshin, Roman Storchak, Xenia Ireton
Book Image

Azure Data Factory Cookbook

By: Dmitry Anoshin, Dmitry Foshin, Roman Storchak, Xenia Ireton

Overview of this book

Azure Data Factory (ADF) is a modern data integration tool available on Microsoft Azure. This Azure Data Factory Cookbook helps you get up and running by showing you how to create and execute your first job in ADF. You’ll learn how to branch and chain activities, create custom activities, and schedule pipelines. This book will help you to discover the benefits of cloud data warehousing, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Azure Data Lake Gen2 Storage, which are frequently used for big data analytics. With practical recipes, you’ll learn how to actively engage with analytical tools from Azure Data Services and leverage your on-premise infrastructure with cloud-native tools to get relevant business insights. As you advance, you’ll be able to integrate the most commonly used Azure Services into ADF and understand how Azure services can be useful in designing ETL pipelines. The book will take you through the common errors that you may encounter while working with ADF and show you how to use the Azure portal to monitor pipelines. You’ll also understand error messages and resolve problems in connectors and data flows with the debugging capabilities of ADF. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to use ADF as the main ETL and orchestration tool for your data warehouse or data platform projects.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Using templates to create ADF pipelines

Modern organizations are operating in a fast-pace environment. It is important to deliver insights faster and have shorter analytics iterations. Moreover, Azure found that many organizations have similar use cases for their modern cloud analytics deployments. As a result, Azure built a number of predefined templates. For example, if you have data in Amazon S3 and you want to copy it into Azure Data Lake, you can find a specific template for this operation; or say you want to move an on-premises Oracle data warehouse to the Azure Synapse Analytics data warehouse – you are covered with ADF templates.

Getting ready

ADF provides us with templates in order to accelerate data engineering development. In this recipe, we will review the common templates and see how to use them.

How to do it...

We will find and review an existing template using Data Factories.

  1. In the Azure portal, choose Data Factories.
  2. Open our existing...