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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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Index

Investigating failures – running pipelines in debug mode

When your Azure Data Factory pipeline does not work as expected, it is useful to have tools to examine what went wrong. The debug mode allows us to run a pipeline receiving immediate feedback about its execution.

In this section, we’ll explore how to investigate a pipeline failure using debug mode capabilities. We will cover how to identify errors, understand error messages, and troubleshoot activities to resolve a failed pipeline.

Getting ready

In order to prepare your environment for this recipe, follow these steps:

  1. Set up an Azure SQL server and create Airline, Country, and PipelineLog tables and an InsertLogRecord stored procedure. Use the CreateAirlineTable.sql, CreateCountryTable.sql, and CreateActivityLogsTable.sql scripts to create these objects. These were also required for Chapter 2, Orchestration and Control Flow. If you followed the recipes in that chapter, you should have the...