Azure Data Factory by Example: Practical Implementation for Data Engineers

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R. SwinbankAzure Data Factory by Examplehttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0218-8_3

3. The Copy Activity

Richard Swinbank¹  

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Tewkesbury, UK

 

Data integration tasks can be divided into two groups: those of data movement and those of data transformation. In Chapter 2, you created an Azure Data Factory pipeline that copied data from one blob storage container to another – a simple data movement using the Copy activity. The Copy activity is the core tool in Azure Data Factory for moving data from one place to another, and this chapter explores its application in greater detail.

The data movement performed in Chapter 2 was unstructured. By choosing the Binary ...