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Azure Data Factory Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Dmitry Foshin, Tonya Chernyshova, Dmitry Anoshin, Xenia Ireton
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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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Creating an Azure Data Factory using Azure Bicep

Azure Bicep is a domain-specific language that offers a more readable and maintainable approach to creating and managing Azure resources. It simplifies the process of creating, deploying, and managing ADF resources, reducing the complexity and tediousness of managing raw JSON files. In this recipe, we will create an Azure Data Factory using Azure Bicep and the Visual Studio Code Azure Bicep extension. The Azure Bicep extension for Visual Studio Code provides syntax highlighting, code snippets, and IntelliSense to make working with Azure Bicep files more efficient.

Getting ready

Before diving into the creation of an Azure Data Factory using Azure Bicep and Visual Studio Code, ensure that you have the necessary prerequisites in place:

  • An active Azure subscription
  • Visual Studio Code installed on your local machine
  • Azure CLI installed on your local machine
  • Azure Bicep CLI extension installed on your...