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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)

Creating a SQL Server database

SSIS is part of the SQL Server ecosystem. Hence, we need to create a SQL Server and a database and fill it with the data that will be used in the following recipes to deploy and run SSIS packages.

Getting ready

To get started with your recipe, log in to your Microsoft Azure account.

We assume that you have pre-configured a resource group and storage account with Azure Data Lake Gen2.

How to do it…

Let's prepare a SQL Server database. Later, it will be used to run the SQL Server Integration Service package. Perform the following steps:

  1. Go to SQL databases on Azure, as shown in the following screenshot:

    Figure 6.1 – Adding a SQL database

    Next, click + Add and then fill in the Database name field and click Create new, as shown in the following screenshot:

    Figure 6.2 – Setting a SQL Server

  2. Fill in the Server name, Server admin login, Password, and Confirm password fields. Select a Location. Preferably...