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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

Pausing/resuming an Azure Synapse SQL pool from Azure Data Factory

In this recipe, you will create a new Azure Data Factory pipeline that allows you to automatically pause and resume your Synapse dedicated SQL pool.

Getting ready

You need access to an Azure Synapse workspace with a dedicated SQL pool for this recipe. Make sure your dedicated SQL pool is paused before starting this recipe as you are going to resume it automatically using Azure Data Factory pipeline.

How to do it…

We shall start by designing a pipeline to resume a Synapse SQL pool with an Azure Data Factory pipeline, and then create a pipeline to pause it:

  1. Go to your Azure Data Factory studio, open the Author section, and create a new pipeline. In the Activities section, choose Web. Rename the activity and the pipeline:

    Figure 3.30: Azure Data Factory pipeline – Web activity

    Go to the Settings tab, then copy and paste the following text into the URL textbox:

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