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Modern ETL: Azure Data Factory, Data Lake, and SQL Database
- 1. Modern ETL: Azure Data Factory, Data Lake, and SQL Database Eric Bragas
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- 5. About Me • Senior Business Intelligence Consultant with DesignMind • Undergoing a metamorphosis (somewhat Kafkaesque) into a Cloud Data Engineer • Always had a passion for art, design, and clean engineering (I own a Dyson vacuum) and those passions have stuck with me over the years • I returned from a trip to Dresden, Germany, Prague, and Venice this week • Undergoing my Accelerated Freefall training to become a certified skydiver https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericbragas93/ @ericbragas eric@designmind.com
- 6. Overview This session IS • A discussion of the awesome tools available in Azure for batch processing data • A comparison of ETL and ELT (or LETS) • PaaS first! This session IS NOT • A technical deep dive • A discussion about migrations • For the faint of heart ;)
- 7. Overview (cont’d) • Background in architecting and implementing SQL Server Data Warehouses • Experience with lift-and-shift, hybrid IaaS and Paas warehouses, and brand new implementations using just PaaS
- 8. PaaS vs. IaaS Benefits of PaaS • No server to maintain! • Literally just data and configurations • A lot less room for user error • Ridiculous reliability • Developers, develop • Elasticity of all services, including on as needed basis • U-SQL AUs • Data Factory parallelism • SQL Database scaling (kills connections)
- 9. PaaS vs. IaaS (cont’d) Benefits of PaaS Development Process • Wide variety of tools, both visual and via the API • Azure Portal makes the dev-test cycle very fast • Also web based which makes working from anywhere really easy • Visual Studio and VS Code extensions for development and tuning • Excellent for integrating with source control • And a bunch more! The effectiveness of a solution is largely influenced by the effectiveness of the team
- 12. Azure Data Factory • "[Azure Data Factory] is a cloud- based data integration service that allows you to create data- driven workflows in the cloud that orchestrate and automate data movement and data transformation.“ • Version 1 – service for batch processing of time series data • Version 2 – a general purpose data processing and workflow orchestration tool
- 16. What if we need more? Loading directly to SQL and transforming using SQL can be a good option for smaller datasets where you don’t expect much evolution What if you want more flexibility to add larger or more varying data sets? Or you need a warehouse, but the business doesn’t know what exactly they need until they see it? Enter, the Data Lake!
- 17. Azure Data Lake Two components: • Data Lake Store – a distributed file store that enables massively parallel read/write on data by a number of services i.e. ADF, ADLA, HDInsight, ADW, etc. • Data Lake Analytics – a data processing engine that leverages the hybrid SQL and C# language called U- SQL to perform massively parallel processing of data. Pay only for what you use. Note: ADLA is not an ad hoc query engine. It is a batch processing engine that takes file inputs and produces file outputs.
- 18. What is a Data Lake? • Place to load all your raw data into a folder framework • Important to maintain order • Schema-on-read queries to process data as needed • Unstructured, semi-structured, and structured data • Batch data processing at scale to feed your data marts • Extensible query language • Utilize as hub for analytics • ADW, ADLA, ML, etc.
- 20. What are the Benefits? • Load data without first defining or being locked into a particular schema • Explore the data before deciding what schema to impose and processing for your downstream analytics • Alleviates a major challenge with starting a DW project • Faster time-to-value (less time deliberating, more time iterating) • Feed multiple downstream systems from the same system • Enable a variety of user types to interact with data at the level they need • Data Scientists on raw data; Analysts on Data Marts
- 21. Data Lake as a Hub
- 22. Demo Azure Data Lake Store and Analytics
- 23. SQL Database • Cloud managed database service; similar but not the same as SQL Server • Use as the presentation or semantic layer for your data warehouse • Fast ad hoc queries and many concurrent connections • Supports clustered indexes, memory optimized tables, etc.
- 24. Creating Data Marts • Pre-process data incrementally using Data Lake Analytics, and stage in Data Lake Store • Copy to SQL Database table using pre-copy script and the copy activity • More advanced requirements can be serviced by the “writeStoredProcedure” in the copy activity • Maintain metadata for incremental loading within the same database • Track what was loaded last, then load the difference using lookup activity
- 25. Demo Run Pipeline and Query SQL Database
- 26. Q&A Thanks!