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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

Processing data from Azure Data Lake with HDInsight and Hive

HDInsight clusters are versatile open source tools that can handle ETL/ELT and data analytical and scientific tasks at scale. Unfortunately, usage of Azure HDInsight is chargeable even when the cluster is inactive or not loaded. But ADF can create and manage short-lived HDInsight clusters. Let's build one.

Getting ready

Ensure that you have a pre-configured resource group and storage account with Azure Data Lake Gen2. Now, log in to your Microsoft Azure account.

How to do it…

For processing data from Azure Data Lake with HDInsight and Hive, use the following steps.

  1. Go to the Azure portal and find Azure Active Directory.
  2. Click App registrations, as shown in the following screenshot:

    Figure 5.10 – App registrations
  3. Then, click + New registration and fill in the name of your app, as shown in the following screenshot:

    Figure 5.11 – Registering an app
  4. Leave the default answer to Who can use this...