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Azure Data Factory Cookbook

By : Dmitry Anoshin, Dmitry Foshin, Roman Storchak, Xenia Ireton
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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)

Adding flexibility to your pipelines with Azure Functions

In this recipe, you will learn how to create an Azure Functions app and an Azure function and call it from ADF. Azure Functions gives you the freedom to create and execute a small or moderate amount of code in C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, or PowerShell. This freedom releases you from a need to create a special infrastructure to host this development environment; however, you still need to provision an Azure Storage account and App Insights to store your Azure Functions code and collect metrics of its execution.

Getting ready…

Before we start, ensure that you have an Azure license and are familiar with the basics of Azure resources, such as the Azure portal, creating and deleting Azure resources, and creating pipelines in ADF. You can find more information about Azure resources in Chapter 1, Getting Started with ADF, and Chapter 2, Orchestration and Control Flow, of this book.

How to do it…

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