The hands-on introduction to ADF found in this book is equally well-suited to data engineers embracing their first ETL/ELT toolset as it is to seasoned veterans of Microsoft's SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS). The example-driven approach leads you through ADF pipeline construction from the ground up, introducing important ideas and making learning natural and engaging. SSIS users will find concepts with familiar parallels, while ADF-first readers will quickly master those concepts through the book's steady building up of knowledge in successive chapters. Summaries of key concepts at the end of each chapter provide a ready reference that you can return to again and again.
What You Will Learn
Create pipelines, activities, datasets, and linked services
Build reusable components using variables, parameters, and expressions
Move data into and around Azure services automatically
Transform data natively using ADF data flows and Power Query data wrangling
Master flow-of-control and triggers for tightly orchestrated pipeline execution
Publish and monitor pipelines easily and with confidence
Who This Book Is For
Data engineers and ETL developers taking their first steps in Azure Data Factory, SQL Server Integration Services users making the transition toward doing ETL in Microsoft's Azure cloud, and SQL Server database administrators involved in data warehousing and ETL operations