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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)
13
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14
Index

Technical requirements

For this chapter, you will need the following:

  • For the first three recipes, you will need a Power BI or a Fabric subscription. If you do not have one, you can activate a free trial subscription by following these steps:
    1. Navigate to https://app.fabric.microsoft.com/home and sign up for a free Power BI license.

      Note

      You need a business email address to do this.

    1. Once on the Fabric portal, go to the account manager in the top-right corner and click on the Start Trial button in the popup. Your trial should be activated after this, and your account manager should look similar to the following snapshot:

      Figure 8.1: Activated Fabric trial

      If you do not see the Start Trial button, you need to work with your Power BI tenant administrator to enable user access to Fabric. Instructions for administrators can be found on the Microsoft site at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us...