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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 a Microsoft Purview account and creating a data catalog

Microsoft Purview is a data governance service that allows you to manage all your data assets in one single place. Using Microsoft Purview, you can build data catalogs to maintain various information about data assets such as dataset details, schema details of the dataset, data source details, dataset classification, owners of the dataset, and many more.

In this recipe, we will provision a Purview account and build a basic data catalog. After that, we will register a resource group and scan the resources/assets in the resource group. By doing this, Purview will collect and store the metadata information about all the data assets in the resource group and build a basic data catalog.

Getting ready

To get started, log into https://portal.azure.com using your Azure credentials. Then, follow these steps:

  1. Create a Synapse Analytics workspace, as explained in the Provisioning a Azure Synapse Analytics...