Azure Purview documentation

About Azure Purview

Overview

• What is Azure Purview?

Concept

• Deployment best practices
• Data Catalog Permissions
• Supported data sources and file types

Get started

Quickstart

• Create a Purview account - Portal
• Create a Purview account - PowerShell/CLI

Tutorial

• Download Starter kit
• Run starter kit and scan data
• Navigate Purview home page and search
• Browse assets and view lineage
• Explore resource sets, assets, schemas, classifications
• Create glossary terms

Scan Azure data sources

Tutorial

• Run starter kit and scan data

How-To Guide

• Scan Azure SQL Database
• Scan Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2
• Scan Azure Cosmos DB
• Power BI Tenant
• Register and scan Azure Blob Storage

Scan non-Azure data sources

How-To Guide

• Scan SQL server on-premises

Understand your data estate

How-To Guide

• View asset insights
• View glossary insights
• View scan insights
• View classification insights

Curate data

Tutorial

• Resource sets, assets, schemas, classifications
• Glossary terms

How-To Guide

• Create, edit, & delete custom classifications and rules
• Create, import, & export a glossary

Discover data

Tutorial

• Browse and lineage

How-To Guide

• Browse by asset type
• Search for assets, terms, annotations, and contacts