The Azure Purview data catalog has released a new set of features that make it easier find important and interesting data to accomplish your data-driven tasks.
Object Type Filter
The object type filter is a new facet that allows users to look at similar data types across different source types. For example, say you are looking for a finance table, but you aren't sure if that data lives in Azure SQL Database or an Azure Synapse Dedicated SQL Table. The object type filter let's you filter for "Tables" and shows all results across different sources that have a tabular structure. Another example is "Data pipelines" includes results from different data integration tools such as Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, and SSIS.
Note: The content type filter no longer is replaced with the object type functionality. Resource sets are returned as part of the "Files" filter.
PowerBI Certification labels in Search
Organizations often have large amounts of Power BI content available for sharing and reuse by their Power BI users, and identifying trustworthy, authoritative content can be difficult. Endorsement is a way to make it easier for users to find the high-quality content they need. Now when searching the Azure Purview data catalog, users can see PowerBI endorsement labels directly from the search results making it easier to identify assets that should be used for consumption.
Note: Only PowerBI assets ingested after August 5th, 2021 will display endorsement information. For older assets, please trigger a full scan to see these labels.
Open more source types in PowerBI Desktop
Azure Purview is making easier to quickly work with useful data after you discover. As part of our "Azure Purview and PowerBI: Better Together" initiative, we have add more asset types that you can directly open in PowerBI desktop. On top of the existing integration with Azure SQL Database and Azure Synapse Analytics, you can now open assets from the following sources in PowerBI desktop from the asset details page:
- Azure Blob Storage
- Azure Cosmos DB
- Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2
- Azure Dedicated SQL pool (formerly SQL DW)
- Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
- Azure Database for MySQL
- Azure Database for PostgreSQL
- Oracle DB
- SQL Server
- Teradata