Data curator |
A role that provides access to Unified Catalog to manage assets, configure custom classifications, set up glossary terms, and view insights. Data curators can create, read, modify, move, and delete assets. They can also apply annotations to assets. |
Data dictionary |
A list of canonical names of database columns and their corresponding data types. Often used to describe the format and structure of a database, and the relationship between its elements. |
Data Estate Insights |
An area of the Microsoft Purview governance portal that provides up-to-date reports and actionable insights about the data estate. |
Data Map |
A metadata repository that is the foundation of the Microsoft Purview governance portal. The data map is a graph that describes assets across a data estate and is populated through scans and other data ingestion processes. This graph helps organizations understand and govern their data by providing rich descriptions of assets, representing data lineage, classifying assets, storing relationships between assets, and housing information at both the technical and semantic layers. The data map is an open platform that can be interacted with and accessed through Apache Atlas APIs or the Microsoft Purview governance portal. |
Data Map operation |
A create, read, update, or delete action performed on an entity in the data map. For example, creating an asset in the data map is considered a data map operation. |
Data owner |
An individual or group responsible for managing a data asset. |
Data pattern |
A regular expression that represents the data that is stored in a data field. For example, a data pattern for employee ID could be Employee{GUID}. |
Data plane operation |
An operation within a specific Microsoft Purview instance, such as editing an asset or creating a glossary term. Each instance has predefined roles, such as "data reader" and "data curator" that control which data plane operations a user can perform. |
Data reader |
A role that provides read-only access to data assets, classifications, classification rules, collections, glossary terms, and insights. |
Data Share contributor |
A role that can share data within an organization and with other organizations using data share capabilities in Microsoft Purview. Data share contributors can view, create, update, and delete sent and received shares. |
Data Sharing |
Microsoft Purview Data Sharing is a set of features in Microsoft Purview that enables you to securely share data across organizations. |
Data source admin |
A role that can manage data sources and scans. A user in the Data source admin role doesn't have access to Microsoft Purview governance portal. Combining this role with the Data reader or Data curator roles at any collection scope provides Microsoft Purview governance portal access. |
Data steward |
An individual or group responsible for maintaining nomenclature, data quality standards, security controls, compliance requirements, and rules for the associated object. |
Discovered asset |
An asset that the Microsoft Purview Data Map identifies in a data source during the scanning process. The number of discovered assets includes all files or tables before resource set grouping. |
Distinct match threshold |
The total number of distinct data values that need to be found in a column before the scanner runs the data pattern on it. For example, a distinct match threshold of eight for employee ID requires that there are at least eight unique data values among the sampled values in the column that match the data pattern set for employee ID. |