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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

Introducing Microsoft Fabric and Data Factory

Microsoft unveiled its unified business analytics platform Fabric in Spring 2023. Fabric combines the capabilities of Power BI, Azure Synapse, and ADF in one integrated environment.

In this recipe, our goal is to get acquainted with the Microsoft Fabric environment, where we will create the infrastructure and data store necessary for working in Fabric, and load some data from remote storage into the newly created data store.

Getting ready

For this recipe, you need an active Power BI account and Microsoft Fabric activated. Follow the steps described in the Technical requirements section of this chapter to activate the Fabric trial license if you have not done so already.

How to do it...

We shall start by creating a Microsoft Fabric workspace, then we’ll instantiate a Lakehouse and load data using the Microsoft Fabric Copy data wizard:

  1. Open Fabric at https://app.fabric.microsoft.com/home and log in to...