Nidhi Gupta
3 min readDec 24, 2023

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Compression and Decompression of files using copy activity in the ADF pipeline

Decompression:

Decompression is the unzipping of files.

Step 1: Create azure resource group, azure storage account, and azure data factory account.

Step 2: Create a folder at the storage container data and output. The data folder will have the zip folder files in compressed format.

DATA FOLDER
OUTPUT FOLDER INITIAL
CONTAINER FOLDER

Step3:

(i) Create a Linked Service as a connection string to establish the connection from the source and target.

(ii) Create a dataset as CSV to point to the source and the target.

SOURCE DATASET

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Nidhi Gupta

Azure Data Engineer 👨‍💻.Heading towards cloud technologies expertise✌️.