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Analytics
premium
Kusto follower database
Kusto follower database is a read-only database attached from another Azure Data Explorer cluster so consumers can query leader data without copying it.
Azure Data Explorer data sharing
Advanced
5 commands
Aliases: ADX follower database, Azure Data Explorer follower database, followed database
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Analytics
premium
Azure Data Explorer
A fully managed, high-performance analytics service for near-real-time analysis of large telemetry, log, event, and time-series datasets.
Real-time analytics
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: ADX, Kusto
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Analytics
premium
Azure Databricks
A unified, open analytics platform on Azure for building, deploying, sharing, and maintaining enterprise data, analytics, and AI solutions at scale.
Data engineering and AI
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Databricks on Azure
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Analytics
field-manual-complete
Synapse data explorer pool
A analytics platform concept in Synapse Analytics that helps teams move, transform, query, and govern data at scale with clearer ownership, safety, and operational context.
Synapse Analytics
fundamentals
6 commands
Aliases: Azure Synapse data explorer pool, Data Explorer pool, Kusto pool in Synapse, Synapse Kusto pool, Synapse data explorer pool, legacy Synapse Data Explorer, synapse data explorer pool, synapse-data-explorer-pool
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Databases
premium
Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server
A fully managed Azure database service for MySQL workloads with configurable compute, storage, backups, networking, maintenance, and high availability options.
Managed MySQL
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: MySQL Flexible Server
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Databases
premium
Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server
A fully managed Azure PostgreSQL service with configurable compute, storage, backups, networking, maintenance, extensions, and high availability options.
Managed PostgreSQL
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: PostgreSQL Flexible Server
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Analytics
premium
Azure Databricks Unity Catalog
A unified governance layer in Azure Databricks for data and AI assets, including catalogs, schemas, tables, volumes, models, privileges, and lineage.
Data governance
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Unity Catalog
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Databases
premium
Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Database is a fully managed relational database service in Azure that provides SQL Server-compatible engines as single databases, elastic pools, and serverless or provisioned compute choices. Microsoft Learn presents it as platform as a service with built-in availability, backups, patching, scaling, and security integration.
Database
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Azure SQL DB, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL pooled database, Azure SQL single database, SQL Database
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Databases
premium
Azure SQL database copy
Azure SQL database copy creates a transactionally consistent copy of an Azure SQL Database using portal, PowerShell, Azure CLI, or Transact-SQL.
Azure SQL Database
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure SQL copy, Azure SQL database copy, CREATE DATABASE AS COPY OF, SQL database copy, database copy
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Databases
premium
Azure SQL Database DTU model
Azure SQL Database DTU model is a purchasing model that bundles compute, storage, and I/O resources into Database Transaction Units for Basic, Standard, and Premium tiers.
Azure SQL Database
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure SQL Database DTU model, DTU model, DTU-based purchasing model, Database Transaction Unit, eDTU
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AI and Machine Learning
premium
Azure AI Search data source
Azure AI Search data source is the connection definition an Azure AI Search indexer uses to read content from a supported external data store.
AI platform and search
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Search data source, SearchIndexerDataSourceConnection, data source connection, indexer data source, search data source connection
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Storage
premium
Azure Data Box
An Azure service that transfers large amounts of data to or from Azure by shipping secure, managed storage devices for offline migration.
Data transfer
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Data Box
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Management and Governance
premium
Azure data plane
The Azure data plane is the part of Azure you use after a resource exists, when you interact with the capability that resource provides. Microsoft Learn anchors this term in Azure control plane and data plane, but this field-manual definition is intentionally wider than an older short glossary entry because the page must teach what to inspect, what can break, who owns the decision, and which evidence proves the Azure environment is behaving as intended. In field use, start with the technical boundary: Technically, data-plane operations are service-specific operations against.
Azure Resource Manager
fundamentals
4 commands
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Databases
premium
Azure SQL transparent data encryption
Azure SQL Transparent Data Encryption helps protect Azure SQL Database data, log files, and backups at rest by encrypting and decrypting database pages without requiring application changes.
Azure SQL Database
fundamentals
4 commands
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Analytics
learning-path-anchor
Databricks metastore
The top-level Unity Catalog container for catalogs, schemas, tables, volumes, models, functions, and governance permissions.
Databricks
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Unity Catalog metastore, Databricks Unity Catalog metastore, metastore
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Analytics
premium
Kusto data connection
Kusto data connection links Azure Data Explorer to event or storage sources such as Event Hubs, Event Grid, or IoT Hub so data can be ingested into a database table.
Azure Data Explorer ingestion
Intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: ADX data connection, Event Hubs data connection, Event Grid data connection, IoT Hub data connection
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Analytics
premium
Kusto database
Kusto database is a logical container inside an Azure Data Explorer cluster that holds tables, functions, policies, permissions, and ingestion/query configuration.
Azure Data Explorer database
Intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: ADX database, Azure Data Explorer database, Kusto DB
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Storage
premium
Azure Storage Explorer
Azure Storage Explorer is a standalone app for Windows, macOS, and Linux that helps users connect to and manage Azure Storage data and resources through a graphical interface.
Storage tooling
fundamentals
4 commands
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Databases
premium
Cosmos DB database
An Azure Cosmos DB database is a unit of management for one or more containers within an account and acts as a namespace for child resources.
Cosmos DB
fundamentals
4 commands
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Analytics
learning-path-anchor
Databricks MLflow
The managed MLflow experience in Azure Databricks for experiments, runs, metrics, artifacts, model lineage, and MLOps evidence.
Databricks
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: MLflow on Databricks, Databricks experiment tracking, MLflow tracking
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Analytics
learning-path-anchor
Databricks model serving
A managed serving endpoint pattern for exposing Databricks models or AI workloads for online inference with operational controls.
Databricks
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Databricks Model Serving, serving endpoint, model serving endpoint
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Analytics
learning-path-anchor
Databricks notebook
A collaborative Azure Databricks document for code, SQL, visualizations, exploration, jobs, and ML workflows attached to compute.
Databricks
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: Azure Databricks notebook, Databricks workspace notebook, interactive notebook
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Analytics
learning-path-anchor
Databricks Photon
The native vectorized Azure Databricks engine for accelerating eligible SQL, DataFrame, ETL, and streaming workloads.
Databricks
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Photon engine, Photon acceleration, Databricks vectorized engine
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Analytics
learning-path-anchor
Databricks repo
A workspace Git integration, now called Git folders, for versioning notebooks and files used in Databricks development and CI/CD.
Databricks
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: Databricks Repos, Databricks Git folder, Azure Databricks Git folders, workspace Git folder
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Analytics
learning-path-anchor
Databricks schema
A Unity Catalog namespace under a catalog that groups tables, views, volumes, models, functions, and permissions.
Databricks
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: Unity Catalog schema, Databricks database schema, schema in Unity Catalog
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Analytics
learning-path-anchor
Databricks secret scope
A named Databricks collection of secrets used to store credentials and grant controlled read or manage access to workloads.
Databricks
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: Databricks secrets scope, secret scope, Azure Databricks secrets
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Analytics
learning-path-anchor
Databricks SQL warehouse
A Databricks SQL compute resource for interactive queries, dashboards, BI tools, and governed analytics workloads.
Databricks
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: SQL warehouse, Databricks SQL compute, serverless SQL warehouse
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Analytics
learning-path-anchor
Databricks table
A governed Databricks data object, commonly managed, external, or foreign, queried through Unity Catalog and optimized for analytics.
Databricks
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: Unity Catalog table, Delta table in Databricks, Databricks managed table
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Storage
learning-path-anchor
Data Lake storage account
A storage feature or access model in Data Lake Storage Gen2 that helps teams store, protect, move, and govern application or analytics data with clearer ownership, safety, and operational context.
Data Lake Storage Gen2
advanced
19 commands
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AI and Machine Learning
command-rich
Data source in AI Search
Data source in AI Search is documented by Microsoft as part of the Azure AI Search area in Azure.
Azure AI Search
intermediate
6 commands
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Databases
complete
Shared throughput database
A Cosmos DB database whose containers share provisioned request units from one database-level throughput pool.
Cosmos DB
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Cosmos DB shared throughput database, database-level throughput, shared database throughput, database RU/s pool
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Analytics
field-manual-complete
Lake database
A lake database in Azure Synapse Analytics combines database design, metadata, and storage layout for data stored in the lake, helping teams describe structure and query files through shared Spark and serverless SQL metadata without turning the data lake into a traditional database.
Analytics platform
intermediate
4 commands
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Analytics
premium
Change data capture in Data Factory
A Data Factory capability for processing changed data from supported sources.
Data integration
intermediate
10 commands
Aliases: CDC
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Analytics
premium
Databricks job
A scheduled or triggered Databricks workflow that runs one or more tasks using configured compute, parameters, retries, notifications, and access controls.
Azure Databricks
fundamentals
7 commands
Aliases: Databricks workflow job, Lakeflow Job, Databricks Jobs
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Analytics
premium
Data Factory
Azure’s managed data integration service for creating pipelines that move, transform, schedule, and orchestrate data across cloud, SaaS, and hybrid stores.
Data integration and orchestration
Intermediate
6 commands
Aliases: Data Factory, Data Factory, data factory
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Storage
premium
Data Lake analytics workload
A production analytics workload that stores, transforms, governs, and serves large data sets from a data lake using Azure services such as ADLS Gen2, Data Factory, Databricks, Synapse, or Fabric.
Data Lake Storage
Intermediate
6 commands
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Storage
premium
Data Lake bronze layer
The raw ingestion layer in a lakehouse or medallion architecture where source data first lands with minimal transformation and strong traceability.
Data Lake Storage Gen2
Intermediate
6 commands
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Storage
premium
Data Lake curated zone
The governed, consumer-ready area of a data lake where cleaned, conformed, and documented datasets are served for reporting, analytics, AI, or downstream applications.
Data Lake Storage Gen2
Intermediate
6 commands
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Analytics
premium
Databricks access connector
A first-party Azure resource that gives Azure Databricks a managed identity for Unity Catalog storage credentials and other governed service access.
Azure Databricks
intermediate
6 commands
Aliases: Access Connector for Azure Databricks, Azure Databricks access connector, Databricks managed identity connector
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Analytics
premium
Databricks catalog
The top-level Unity Catalog namespace that organizes schemas, tables, views, volumes, models, functions, permissions, lineage, and governed data ownership.
Azure Databricks
fundamentals
6 commands
Aliases: Unity Catalog catalog, Azure Databricks catalog, catalog object
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Analytics
premium
Databricks cluster
A Databricks compute resource that runs notebooks, jobs, libraries, Spark workloads, and data processing tasks using configured runtime, workers, policies, and access controls.
Azure Databricks
fundamentals
6 commands
Aliases: Databricks compute, Azure Databricks compute cluster, classic cluster
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Analytics
premium
Databricks cluster policy
A Databricks governance object that limits which cluster settings users can choose, helping control cost, security, runtime consistency, and workload standards.
Azure Databricks
intermediate
6 commands
Aliases: Databricks compute policy, cluster policy, compute policy
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Analytics
premium
Databricks DBFS
The Databricks file-system abstraction behind dbfs:/ paths, useful for workspace files and legacy mounts but carefully governed alongside Unity Catalog.
Azure Databricks
fundamentals
6 commands
Aliases: DBFS, Databricks File System, dbfs:/
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Analytics
premium
Databricks managed resource group
The Azure resource group created or referenced for Databricks-managed infrastructure that supports a workspace and its classic compute resources.
Azure Databricks
intermediate
6 commands
Aliases: managed resource group, Azure Databricks managed resource group, workspace managed resource group
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Analytics
premium
External data source
An External data source is a database object that defines the location and connection information used by SQL engines to access external data. Teams use it to point serverless SQL, dedicated SQL pools, or PolyBase-style queries to data stored outside the database, such as Azure Storage or Data Lake paths. It is not the external table schema, the file format definition, the storage account itself, or proof that the credential can read every file under the path.
Synapse SQL and data virtualization
intermediate
6 commands
Aliases: CREATE EXTERNAL DATA SOURCE, PolyBase external data source, Synapse external data source
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Analytics
premium
Data Factory pipeline
A logical grouping of Data Factory activities that performs a coordinated data movement, transformation, or control-flow process.
Data integration and orchestration
Intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Data Factory pipeline, ADF pipeline, data factory pipeline
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Analytics
premium
Data flow cluster
The managed Spark compute that Azure Data Factory or Synapse uses to execute a mapping data flow during a debug session or scheduled pipeline run.
Data Factory
Intermediate
5 commands
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Analytics
premium
Data flow debug
An interactive mapping data flow mode that lets designers preview transformed data and expression results by using an active Spark debug session.
Data Factory
Intermediate
5 commands
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Analytics
premium
Data flow debug cluster
The live Spark cluster started for a mapping data flow debug session so designers can preview data and run transformation logic interactively.
Data Factory
Intermediate
5 commands
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Analytics
premium
Data flow debug session
The active design-time session that keeps data flow debug compute available for previewing transformations, expressions, and pipeline debug activity behavior.
Data Factory
Intermediate
5 commands
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