Updated: May 31, 2023 (October 11, 2021)

Govern Your Data Estate with Azure Purview

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Azure Purview provides key data governance capabilities, including database discovery, scanning, data classification to help protect sensitive data, and data lineage.
Purview can help govern data sources in Azure, on-premises, and in other clouds.
Data quality management and other important features are missing or in preview.

Azure Purview, released to general availability on Sept. 28, 2021, is a centralized cloud registry of enterprise data sources to help data governance and compliance. Based on the open-source Apache Atlas application, Purview provides database scanning, classification, and data lineage across on-premises and cloud databases. Unlike its predecessor, Azure Data Catalog, which is no longer under active development, Purview supports data sources on-premises and in multiple clouds.

Data Governance Primer

Most IT organizations have a wide and varied “data estate,” that is, a collection of data sources ranging from files to relational and NoSQL databases supporting

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