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Azure Data Factory Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Dmitry Foshin, Tonya Chernyshova, Dmitry Anoshin, Xenia Ireton
4 (1)
Book Image

Azure Data Factory Cookbook - Second Edition

4 (1)
By: Dmitry Foshin, Tonya Chernyshova, Dmitry Anoshin, Xenia Ireton

Overview of this book

This new edition of the Azure Data Factory book, fully updated to reflect ADS V2, will help you get up and running by showing you how to create and execute your first job in ADF. There are updated and new recipes throughout the book based on developments happening in Azure Synapse, Deployment with Azure DevOps, and Azure Purview. The current edition also runs you through Fabric Data Factory, Data Explorer, and some industry-grade best practices with specific chapters on each. You’ll learn how to branch and chain activities, create custom activities, and schedule pipelines, as well as discover the benefits of cloud data warehousing, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Azure Data Lake Gen2 Storage. With practical recipes, you’ll learn how to actively engage with analytical tools from Azure Data Services and leverage your on-premises infrastructure with cloud-native tools to get relevant business insights. You'll familiarize yourself with the common errors that you may encounter while working with ADF and find out the solutions to them. 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 with its latest advancements as the main ETL and orchestration tool for your data warehouse projects.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Index

Using templates to create ADF pipelines

Modern organizations are operating in a fast-paced environment. It is important to deliver insights faster and have shorter analytics iterations. Moreover, Azure found that many organizations have similar use cases for their modern cloud analytics deployments. As a result, Azure built a number of predefined templates. For example, if you have data in Amazon S3 and you want to copy it into Azure Data Lake, you can find a specific template for this operation; or say you want to move an on-premises Oracle data warehouse to the Azure Synapse Analytics data warehouse – you are covered with ADF templates.

Getting ready

ADF provides us with templates in order to accelerate data engineering development. In this recipe, we will review the common templates and see how to use them.

How to do it...

We will find and review an existing template using Data Factories:

  1. In the Azure portal, choose Data Factories.
  2. Open our...