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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)

Migrating data from Google BigQuery to Azure Synapse

In this recipe, we will import a public dataset, github_repo.files, from Google BigQuery into Azure Synapse – formerly Azure Data Warehouse. We will create a SQL data pool, create the table to store our imported data, and configure the pipeline to migrate data from a public dataset hosted at Google BigQuery.

Getting ready

To complete this recipe, you will need a Google Cloud project with the BigQuery API enabled. Refer to the Getting ready section in the previous recipe for instructions on how to set those up and obtain your Project ID, Client ID, Client Secret, and Refresh Token fields.

You will also need an instance of an Azure Synapse SQL pool to import the data. Refer to the chapter on Azure Synapse on how to create and configure a SQL pool. Have the login credentials for this SQL pool to hand.

You will also need to create a table in your database to store the data we import. Download the script to create...