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Public Preview: Data sharing lineage and search for Azure Storage in Microsoft Purview
Data Sharing Lineage is now available in Microsoft Purview for Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen2 and Azure Blob (Blob) Storage in public preview. Data Sharing Lineage is aimed to provide detailed…
July 2022
Generally available: Rich text editor in Microsoft Purview data catalog
Target availability: Q3 2022
Add rich text formatting to asset and term descriptions in the Microsoft Purview data catalog.
Public preview: Microsoft Purview data sharing for Azure Storage
Microsoft Purview data sharing for in-place data sharing for Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS Gen2) and Azure Blob Storage is now in public preview.
June 2022
Public preview: Microsoft Purview access policies for Azure SQL Database
Use Microsoft Purview to manage access to your SQL sources using access policies.
May 2022
Generally available: Microsoft Purview Data Estate Insights
Microsoft Purview Data Estate Insights (in GA July 1, 2022) provides a bird's eye view of your data estate's health.
Public preview: Microsoft Purview Data Policy for SQL dev ops roles
Microsoft Purview Data Policy enables policies for data access, now including SQL dev ops roles.
April 2022
General availability: Glossary terms in Azure Purview data catalog search
The Azure Purview data catalog search experience now includes glossary terms in the search results.
March 2022
Public preview: Azure Purview workflows
You can now manage approvals for business terms or self-service data access requests for your entire data estate without having to use manual controls like emails or worksheets.
February 2022
General availability: Asset certification in Azure Purview data catalog
Data stewards can now certify assets that meet their organization's quality standards in the Azure Purview data catalog
General availability: Localization available in Azure Purview
The Azure Purview UX team has localized Azure Purview studio to 18 languages.
December 2021
Public preview of Snowflake connector for Azure Purview
You can now scan your Snowflake artifacts including streams, columns, stored procedures, and functions/pipes.
November 2021
Public preview: Azure Purview’s Integration with Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Prioritise sensitive data in cloud workloads using Azure Purview’s Integration with Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
Public preview: Simplified provisioning of access to data lake assets
Azure Purview will enable data owners to use a simple intuitive experience to centrally manage access to data in Azure Storage
Public preview: Explore your Amazon RDS data in Azure Purview
Azure Purview, the unified data governance solution, expands its multi-cloud coverage with support for Amazon RDS.
September 2021
Azure Purview is now generally available
The Azure Purview Data Map and Data Catalogue are generally available.
July 2021
Public preview: Scan and view lineage of data stored in Erwin Mart, Google BigQuery and Looker using Azure Purview
Azure Purview now supports automated scanning from Erwin, BigQuery and Looker soureces to extract schema and lineage between data.
Now available: Azure Purview product glossary
The Azure Purview product glossary provides comprehensive set of product terms and definitions used in Azure Purview features and functionality.
May 2021
Public preview: Scan and view lineage of data stored in Hive Metastore Database using Azure Purview
Azure Purview now supports automated scanning from a Hive Metastore Database to extract schema and lineage between data.
April 2021
Public preview: Azure Purview is now available in the UK South and Australia East region
Azure Purview is now available in public preview in the Australia East and UK South region. You can now provision Azure Purview accounts in these regions as a public preview offering.
Azure Purview resource set pattern rules available in public preview
Azure Purview is announcing the public preview of resource set pattern rules. A resource set is a single object in the data catalog that represents a large number of assets in storage. Resource set pattern rules allow you to customize or override how Azure Purview detects which assets are grouped as resource sets and how they are displayed within the catalog.
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