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Security
premium
Data classification tag
A tag or catalog label that marks the sensitivity, owner, regulatory handling, or business classification of an Azure resource or dataset.
Data protection and governance
Intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: classification tag, sensitivity tag, data sensitivity tag, confidentiality tag
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Storage
field-manual-complete
Storage data protection
Storage data protection is the set of Azure Storage controls that help recover, retain, and prove integrity for blob data. It includes patterns such as soft delete, container restore, versioning, change feed, point-in-time restore, immutable storage, and operational backup when those features match the workload.
Storage accounts
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: storage protection, blob data protection, Azure Storage recovery controls, storage recoverability
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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
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 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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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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Management and Governance
verified
Resource delete protection
Resource delete protection uses Azure management locks, usually CanNotDelete, to stop critical resources or resource groups from being deleted by ordinary control-plane operations.
Management locks
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure delete protection, management lock delete protection, CanNotDelete lock, delete lock, protected Azure resource
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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 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
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
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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Analytics
premium
Databricks workspace
A Databricks workspace is the Azure resource and collaborative environment where teams create and operate notebooks, jobs, clusters, SQL warehouses, repositories, experiments, and governed data access.
Analytics platform
beginner
5 commands
Aliases: Azure Databricks workspace, Databricks workspace resource, workspace resource, Databricks environment
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Databases
premium
Advanced threat protection for SQL
Advanced threat protection for SQL is the Defender for SQL capability that detects anomalous and potentially harmful database activity. In everyday Azure work, teams use it to surface SQL injection attempts, unusual access, unfamiliar principals, suspicious applications, or brute-force credential patterns. The useful evidence is Defender plan state, server or database protection setting, alert recipient,
Azure SQL
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: SQL Advanced Threat Protection, Azure SQL threat detection, Defender for SQL ATP, ATP for Azure SQL
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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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Management and Governance
premium
Data catalog
Data catalog is a governed inventory of data assets, metadata, business context, ownership, lineage, and access signals used to help people find and understand data.
Data governance
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Data catalog
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Management and Governance
premium
Data classification
Data classification is the practice of assigning logical labels or classes to data assets so teams understand sensitivity, business meaning, and handling requirements.
Data governance
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Data classification
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Security
premium
Data exfiltration control
A set of Azure controls that restrict, inspect, or approve where sensitive data can leave a workload, workspace, network, or tenant boundary.
Network and data protection
Intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: egress control, data exfiltration protection, approved outbound data boundary
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Management and Governance
premium
Data lineage
Metadata that describes how data moves and transforms across systems.
Data governance
advanced
4 commands
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Monitoring and Observability
premium
Database diagnostic settings
Azure Monitor routing rules that export database logs and metrics to Log Analytics, Storage, Event Hubs, or partner destinations for investigation and governance.
Azure Monitor
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: SQL diagnostic settings, database diagnostics export, Azure Monitor diagnostic settings for databases
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Databases
premium
Hyperscale database
Hyperscale database is an individual Azure SQL Database configured to use the Hyperscale service tier and its scalable storage and compute architecture.
Azure SQL
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Azure SQL Hyperscale database, hyperscale database, Hyperscale database, Hyperscale SQL database
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Identity
premium
Identity Governance
Identity Governance is a Microsoft Entra set of capabilities for managing identity lifecycle, access lifecycle, access reviews, entitlement management, and privileged access.
Identity operations
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Entra ID Governance, identity governance, Identity Governance, Microsoft Entra Identity Governance
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Identity
premium
Identity Protection
Identity Protection is a Microsoft Entra capability that detects, investigates, and helps remediate risky users and risky sign-ins.
Security
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Entra ID Protection, identity protection, Identity Protection, identity risk protection, Microsoft Entra ID Protection
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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 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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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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Security
field-manual-complete
Least privilege data access
Microsoft Learn describes least privilege as granting users and applications only the data and operations required to do their jobs. In Azure data access, that means scoped roles, managed identities, limited secrets, network controls, and reviewable permissions instead of broad owner-style access.
Data operations
intermediate
5 commands
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Analytics
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Databricks Unity Catalog
Databricks Unity Catalog is the centralized governance layer in Azure Databricks for managing data and AI asset metadata, permissions, lineage, discovery, and workspace access relationships.
Databricks
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Unity Catalog in Azure Databricks, Azure Databricks Unity Catalog, governed catalog, Databricks data governance
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Databases
complete
SQL transparent data encryption
Microsoft Learn describes transparent data encryption for Azure SQL as encryption at rest for databases, backups, and transaction logs. It is enabled by default for Azure SQL Database, uses a service-managed protector unless customer-managed keys are configured, and stays transparent to applications.
Azure SQL security
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: SQL TDE, Azure SQL TDE, transparent data encryption, TDE for Azure SQL
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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 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 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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Networking
premium
DDoS Protection
Azure DDoS Protection is a network-layer protection service that helps defend Azure public IP resources against distributed denial-of-service attacks using always-on traffic monitoring, adaptive mitigation, telemetry, and response capabilities.
Network security
intermediate
6 commands
Aliases: Azure DDoS Protection, DDoS Network Protection, DDoS IP Protection, distributed denial of service protection
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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
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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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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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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