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Azure Data Factory Cookbook

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

Creating an Azure Synapse workspace

Azure Synapse is a combination of capabilities that brings together data integration, SQL analytics that you frequently pair with something such as Power BI, and also Spark for big data processing into a single service for building enterprise analytics solutions. In this recipe, you will learn how to create a new Azure Synapse workspace and migrate your Azure SQL data warehouse into it.

Getting ready

You need to have an Azure subscription, an Azure resource group, and a Synapse SQL pool created.

How to do it…

To create an Azure Synapse workspace, use the following steps:

  1. In the Azure portal, click on Create new resource and select Azure Synapse Analytics (workspaces preview).
  2. Select your subscription and resource group:

    Figure 3.17 – Creating an Azure Synapse workspace

  3. Enter a new workspace name and select a region. You can either create a new Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 account and filename or use existing...