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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)

Building an SSIS package

SSIS packages are a great way to build ETL/ELT processes with SQL Server. Packages (or projects) store the sequence of steps that are performed to execute an activity. Let's build a package that will connect to the SQL Server database, which stores the movielens dataset, preprocess it, and store the output in a new table.

Getting ready

In order to follow this recipe, you need to finish the Creating a SQL Server database recipe, as we will build an SSIS package that will use both a database and data that we have prepared previously.

Then, you have to install the most recent version of Visual Studio and log in to Azure via Visual Studio. Visual Studio Community edition fully supports all the features that we will use in the following recipes.

How to do it…

Let's build an SSIS package that joins two tables and deploy it to SSISDB in Azure:

  1. Open Visual Studio and create a new project.
  2. Select Integration Services Project...