Using various activities in Synapse pipelines

Synapse pipelines give you the option to add various transformations; however, we will try to cover just a couple of transformations in this section. Proceed as follows:

1. Navigate to the Integrate tab on Synapse Studio and click on + to select Pipeline out of the other available options, as illustrated in the following screenshot:
   

   Figure 4.18 – Creating a Synapse pipeline in Synapse Studio

2. Fill in the name and description in the Properties window of the pipeline that you created in the preceding step and click on Publish all to save the changes.
3. Let's add some activities to the canvas. We are going to select the Get Metadata activity from the list of all available activities to begin with, as illustrated in the following screenshot:
   

   Figure 4.19 – Adding the Get Metadata activity to the Synapse pipeline canvas

4. Provide a name for this activity in the General tab. We are going to enter GetMetadataForZipFiles...