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Identifying removed Fabric Assets
Is there any way for a data steward to identify a deleted physical asset ingested from Fabric into Purview. The original asset has been deleted in Fabric and another has been created with the exact same name, both assets now show in the catalogue and there doesn't seem to be a way to distinguish clearly which is the deleted and which is the current.
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Hi, I would avoid using the display name to decide which asset is current. In Purview, two assets can look almost identical if the same Fabric item name was deleted and recreated.
The better clues are the qualified name, source object ID, path, scan time, last modified time, and lineage. The recreated Fabric item should normally have a different underlying identifier even if the friendly name is the same.
I would check the asset details and scan history in Purview, then run a fresh scan of the Fabric source if possible. If the old item remains in the catalog after the source no longer exists, it may need to age out through scanning or be manually curated/deleted depending on your governance process. For stewardship, I would make the qualified name or source ID visible in your review workflow so stewards are not forced to work from name alone.
