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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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Create Synapse Analytics Spark Pool

A Spark Pool is a fundamental component that provides the computing resources for running large-scale Apache Spark jobs within Synapse Analytics.In this receipt, we'll guide you through the process of creating a Spark Pool in Azure Synapse. You'll learn how to configure pool settings, customize resource allocation, manage credentials, and monitor job progress.By the end, you'll have the knowledge to provision and configure a Spark Pool in Azure Synapse, enabling you to harness the power of Apache Spark for high-performance data processing and analytics.

Getting ready

To get started with your recipe, log in to your Microsoft Azure account. You need to have Synapse workspace created.

How to do it...

To create a Synapse Analytics Spark pool, follow these steps:

  1. Log in to the Azure portal and navigate to your Synapse Analytics workspace.
  2. Click on the "Manage" button in the left-hand menu and select "Apache Spark pools&quot...