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ETL with Azure Cookbook

You're reading from   ETL with Azure Cookbook Practical recipes for building modern ETL solutions to load and transform data from any source

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800203310
Length 446 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Azure and SSIS 2019 2. Chapter 2: Introducing ETL FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Creating and Using SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters 4. Chapter 4: Azure Data Integration 5. Chapter 5: Extending SSIS with Custom Tasks and Transformations 6. Chapter 6: Azure Data Factory 7. Chapter 7: Azure Databricks 8. Chapter 8: SSIS Migration Strategies 9. Chapter 9: Profiling data in Azure 10. Chapter 10: Manage SSIS and Azure Data Factory with Biml 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Setting up a Java Runtime Environment

Some of the recipes in this chapter use the Parquet file format. This is a columnar file format that is widely used nowadays in cloud environments. The improvements that have been made to the format makes it an uncontestable choice, especially for files that contain large volumes of data. Reading from a Parquet file is much faster than reading from any other file formats. The following URL links to the Parquet website, where you can watch a video for more information on the Parquet file format: https://parquet.apache.org/.

Getting ready

We must install a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) to be able to use the Parquet file format. That's the first thing we'll do in this recipe.

How to do it…

Now, let's begin the installation process:

  1. Go to the following website to download Oracle JRE. We're downloading version 8, which is compatible with the Microsoft Azure Feature Pack at the time of writing:https://www...
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