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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)

Chapter 6: Integration with MS SSIS

SQL Server Integration Services is a highly capable ETL/ELT tool that is built into Microsoft SQL Server. Often, it is used to move and transform data on-premises and in cloud environments. Its features somewhat resemble the main features of Azure Data Factory (ADF). At the same time, ADF has high availability and is massively scalable.

ADF adds convenience as it allows the execution of SSIS packages in Azure-SSIS integration or on-premises runtimes. With this tool, you can leverage existing SSIS packages and use familiar development tools.

Running SSIS packages is an essential feature in ADF. In this recipe, we will create a basic SSIS package, deploy it to a managed Azure SQL database, and then trigger its execution in ADF.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Creating a SQL server database
  • Building an SSIS package
  • Running SSIS packages from ADF

By the end of the chapter, you will be able to build...