Azure Purview March Updates

Erwin

4 years ago

Azure Purview updates

Announcements

Last week during SQLBITS, quite a few new updates were announced. I would like to include you in these announcements.

March updates

Support for SAP Business Warehouse (Preview)

Blogpost:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-purview-blog/azure-purview-adds-support-for-sap-business-warehouse/ba-p/3253404

Documentation:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/purview/register-scan-sap-bw

Dynamic lineage extraction from Azure SQL Databases (Preview)

Documentation:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/purview/register-scan-azure-sql-database?tabs=sql-authentication#lineagepreview

Video:

Certify assets in the Azure Purview data catalog

Blogpost:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-purview-blog/certify-assets-in-the-azure-purview-data-catalog/ba-p/3249460

Documentation:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/purview/how-to-certify-assets

Ability to delete child terms when parent term is deleted

Documentation:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/purview/how-to-create-import-export-glossary

Connect to and manage an on-premises SQL server instance in Azure Purview

Documentation:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/purview/register-scan-on-premises-sql-server

Approval workflow for business terms (Preview)

Before you can start Authoring your workflows make sure you the correct user to the role assignment Workflow administrators, if you haven't done that correctly the option will be greyed out.

Blogpost:

Approval workflow for business glossary

Documentation:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/purview/how-to-workflow-business-terms-approval

Self-service data access workflows for hybrid data estates (Preview)

Documentation:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/purview/how-to-workflow-self-service-data-access-hybrid

Azure integration runtime supports scanning more source types

Azure Purview now supports scanning Snowflake, Salesforce, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Cassandra and Looker using managed Azure integration runtime.

Blogpost:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-purview-blog/azure-integration-runtime-supports-scanning-more-source-types/ba-p/3254148

Documentation:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/purview/manage-integration-runtimes

Localization

Azure Purview is localized in 18 languages. To change the language used, go to the Settings from the top bar and select the desired language from the dropdown.