Lets people who otherwise only have Read on an item, Viewers among them, write data into particular folders and tables, whether via Spark, the file explorer app or the APIs. It is granted through a OneLake data access role, and such a role can't also restrict rows or columns.
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Terms in this definition
- CRUD
Shorthand for create, read, update and delete, the four basic things you do with data. Data-plane roles in Azure Cosmos DB, for instance, authorise those operations on items.
- App protection policy
A set of Intune rules on managed apps that safeguards organisational data, for example by demanding a PIN or preventing copy-paste and save-as into personal apps. It works whether or not the device is enrolled.
- OneLake
Built on Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, it is the one logical data lake for an entire Microsoft Fabric tenant, provisioned automatically, and the place where every Fabric workload keeps its data.
- Role
How an actor normally or expectedly behaves, or the part a person takes in a process. A single actor may hold more than one role.
Related terms
- Host caching
A caching option set per VM disk. ReadOnly is the data-disk default and safe for reads, ReadWrite risks losing cached writes if the host fails, and None suits write-heavy disks.