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Azure Data Engineering Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Nagaraj Venkatesan, Ahmad Osama
Book Image

Azure Data Engineering Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Nagaraj Venkatesan, Ahmad Osama

Overview of this book

The famous quote 'Data is the new oil' seems more true every day as the key to most organizations' long-term success lies in extracting insights from raw data. One of the major challenges organizations face in leveraging value out of data is building performant data engineering pipelines for data visualization, ingestion, storage, and processing. This second edition of the immensely successful book by Ahmad Osama brings to you several recent enhancements in Azure data engineering and shares approximately 80 useful recipes covering common scenarios in building data engineering pipelines in Microsoft Azure. You’ll explore recipes from Azure Synapse Analytics workspaces Gen 2 and get to grips with Synapse Spark pools, SQL Serverless pools, Synapse integration pipelines, and Synapse data flows. You’ll also understand Synapse SQL Pool optimization techniques in this second edition. Besides Synapse enhancements, you’ll discover helpful tips on managing Azure SQL Database and learn about security, high availability, and performance monitoring. Finally, the book takes you through overall data engineering pipeline management, focusing on monitoring using Log Analytics and tracking data lineage using Azure Purview. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to build superior data engineering pipelines along with having an invaluable go-to guide.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Provisioning an Azure storage account using PowerShell

PowerShell is a scripting language used to programmatically manage various tasks. In this recipe, we will learn how to provision an Azure storage account using PowerShell.

Getting ready

Before you start, you need to log in to the Azure subscription from the PowerShell console. To do this, execute the following command in a new PowerShell window:

Connect-AzAccount

Then, follow the instructions to log in to the Azure account.

How to do it…

The steps for this recipe are as follows:

  1. Execute the following command in a PowerShell window to create a new resource group. If you want to create the Azure storage account in an existing resource group, this step isn't required:
    New-AzResourceGroup -Name Packtade-powershell -Location 'East US'

You should get the following output:

Figure 1.5 – Creating a new resource group

  1. Execute the following command...