Azure Data Catalog provides a central repository where you can find all of the data sources that are used inside your organization. Most employees inside an organization are not aware of where enterprise data is located or who is responsible for that data. With Azure Data Catalog, any user (such as a developer or analyst, for instance) can discover and consume the data source from a central place.
Azure Data Catalog provides one data catalog per Azure AD Tenant, even if you have multiple subscriptions associated with the tenant. A copy of the data source metadata and the location of the data source is added to the catalog. The data itself remains at the original location. Azure Data Catalog offers search functionality to easily discover the data, as well.
You can import a data source in the Azure Data Catalog using the tooling that Microsoft provides. Azure...
