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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

Chapter 2: Introducing ETL

When I first started in the data warehousing business, something like 20 years ago, I was asked in an interview to define ETL. Being at my first job interview, I had no clue what the interviewer meant by ETL. Luckily, the interviewer kind of liked me and hired me anyway. He told me that I would know all about ETL quite soon. Being in data warehouse businesses for many years, and more recently a data engineer, ETL is what has kept me busy most of the time since then.

ETL stands for Extract, Transform, and Load. ETL is a data moving technique that has been used in various forms since the first enterprise data warehouses' inceptions.

Microsoft formalized the ETL concept near the end of the 1990s with a tool called DTS: Data Transformation Service. This ETL tool, aimed at helping database administrators load data into and from SQL Server, used SQL and ActiveX to move and transform data on-premises.

Microsoft brought its ETL tool to the cloud with...

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ETL with Azure Cookbook
Published in: Sep 2020
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781800203310
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