Catalog Explorer

In the Ultra Transcenders books

DP-750

Each book explains Catalog Explorer in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.

Terms in this definition

• Catalog

  The first level of Unity Catalog's catalog.schema.table naming and the primary boundary for isolating data. Privileges granted on a catalog flow down to every schema and object it contains.

• WHERE

  Limits a SELECT, UPDATE or DELETE to just the rows meeting a condition. Omit it, and the statement hits every row.

• BROWSE

  Granted on a catalog, this Unity Catalog privilege lets people discover objects, read their metadata and request access, all without USE CATALOG and with no access to the data itself.

• RAMP

  The approach used by the Cloud Adoption Framework's Manage methodology to structure cloud operations: teams, duties, processes and tools. It divides what the central platform handles from what each workload handles.

• Unity Catalog

  Azure Databricks' governance solution covering both data and AI in one place, with centralised permissions, auditing, data discovery and lineage.

• AGDLP

  Nesting pattern: users go into global groups, which go into domain local groups, which receive the permissions. AGUDLP adds universal groups for forests with several domains.

• Image tagging

  An Image Analysis feature producing single-word tags, each with a confidence score, for actions, scenery, objects and living things in an image.

Related terms

• AI-generated comments

  Drafted descriptions for Unity Catalog objects and their columns, which Catalog Explorer produces by reading metadata. Someone should check each one before accepting it, and it is not a dependable way of spotting PII.

• Data lineage

  Unity Catalog tracks, without any set-up and at column granularity, where data comes from and where it goes across tables, notebooks, pipelines, jobs and dashboards. You can explore the graph in Catalog Explorer or query it through system tables.