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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)

Copying data in Azure Synapse Orchestrate

In this recipe, you will create a Copy Data pipeline using Azure Synapse Orchestrate.

Getting ready

You need to have an Azure Synapse workspace created and the Flights database loaded into an Azure Synapse SQL pool.

How to do it…

To copy data in Azure Synapse Orchestrate, use the following steps:

  1. Open the Azure Synapse workspace and go to Orchestrate.
  2. Add a new resource, select Pipeline, then select the Copy data activity, and rename it:

    Figure 3.31 – Creating a new pipeline with the Orchestrate tool of the Synapse Analytics workspace

  3. In the Source section, create a new source with a connection to Azure Synapse Analytics. Select Linked service, then enter the database name and the name of the table: dbo.Routes. Test the connection. You can also click Preview data to ensure that the table is loading correctly:

    Figure 3.32 – Specifying a connection in the Orchestrate tool of the Synapse Analytics...