The highest level in Unity Catalog's catalog.schema.table naming and the primary boundary for isolating data. A privilege granted here passes down to every schema and object it contains.
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Terms in this definition
- Unity Catalog
Azure Databricks' governance solution covering both data and AI in one place, with centralised permissions, auditing, data discovery and lineage.
- Schema
The middle part of a Unity Catalog name (
catalog.schema.table), grouping tables, views, volumes, functions and models inside a catalog. A grant on it covers everything in it now and later, and nothing inside can be reached withoutUSE SCHEMA. - CONTAINS
Searches columns with a full-text index for words, phrases, prefixes, inflected forms or synonyms; you use it as a predicate in
WHERE.