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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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Christian Cote Christian Cote
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Matija Lah Matija Lah
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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 an Azure storage account

This recipe will teach you how to set up a storage account in Azure. A storage account is a cheap resource for storing data that will be used by computing resources in Azure. There are two types of storage accounts:

  • Azure Blob Storage: This is the basic storage type and can store petabytes of data for around 6 cents (USD $) per gigabyte. There are two types of block blobs: Pages and Blobs. Page blocks are mainly used for virtual machine disks. Blob blocks, on the other hand, are commonly for multi-purpose usage.
  • Azure Data Lake Gen2: This storage is very similar to the preceding one except that the security is enhanced for advanced analytics purposes. Azure Data Lake (ADL) Gen2 has a folder hierarchy that does not exist in regular blob storage. This allows the security that's used to be role-based access control (RBAC), which means that we can use the credentials of the current user to authenticate to a specific folder in the storage...
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