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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

Loading data to Azure Synapse Analytics using Azure Data Factory

In this recipe, we will look further at how to load data into Azure Synapse Analytics using Azure Data Factory.

Getting ready

Before we start, please ensure that you have created a linked service to a Blob storage container and know how to create a Copy Data statement in Azure Data Factory. Please refer to Chapter 2, Orchestration and Control Flow, for guidelines on how to do that.

How to do it…

To load data into Azure Synapse Analytics using Azure Data Factory, use the following steps:

  1. Before we create a Copy Data statement in Azure Data Factory, we need to create a new table in Azure Synapse Analytics. To do that, open Synapse Studio, go to the Data tab on the left side of your screen, and click New SQL script on a schema for which you want to create a new table, then click New table:

    Figure 3.9: Creating a new table in Azure Synapse Analytics

  1. Run the following...