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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

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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
Other Books You May Enjoy
14
Index

To get the most out of this book

Basic knowledge of data warehousing is expected. You’ll need an Azure subscription to follow all the recipes given in the book. If you’re using a paid subscription, make sure to pause or delete the services after you are done using them, to avoid high usage costs.

Software/Hardware covered in the book

OS Requirements

Azure subscription (portal.azure.com)

Windows, macOS, or Linux

SQL Server Management Studio

Windows

Azure Data Studio

Windows, macOS, or Linux

Power BI or Microsoft Fabric subscription account

Windows, macOS, or Linux

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Download the example code files

You can download the example code files for this book from GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Azure-Data-Factory-Cookbook-Second-Edition. In case there’s an update to the code, it will be updated on the existing GitHub repository.

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exten => s,102,Voicemail(b100)
exten => i,1,Voicemail(s0)

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