Integrated Azure Data Lake Storage data

The ADLS synchronization relies on UUIDs. After you have synchronized the data, the integration of the Azure Data Lake Storage file system is completed, and the resulting assets are available in the domain that was specified in the crawler.

The status of assets depends on the selected value in the Default Asset Status field in the capability.

If No Status is selected, newly created assets receive the first status listed in your Operating Model statuses, and existing assets keep their assigned status.
If Implemented is selected, all assets receive the "Implemented" status.

Warning Do not move the assets to another domain. Doing so may lead to errors during future synchronizations.

Note

If a temporary communication issue results in a partial synchronization, the status of the assets that were not synchronized becomes Missing from source. If the assets are identified in the source system during the next fully successful synchronization, the status behavior depends on the nature of the failure:

If synchronization of the asset was interrupted during processing, the previous status is restored.
If synchronization of the asset did not start, the status is reset to the first default status configured in the asset's lifecycle.

Synchronization results

By default, the assets are shown in a plain list, but you can enable a multi-path hierarchy to show it in a tree structure. The resulting assets depend on whether you use Microsoft Purview.

Synchronization results without Microsoft Purview

For the best result, use the following relations when you define a multi-path hierarchy:

File Storage contains Storage Container
Storage Container contains Storage Container
Directory contains Directory
Storage Container contains File

Synchronization results with Microsoft Purview

For the best result, use the following relations when you define a multi-path hierarchy:

File Storage contains Storage Container
Storage Container contains Storage Container
Directory contains Directory
Storage Container contains File
File contains Table
Table contains Column

Synchronized metadata per asset type

This table shows the metadata for each ADLS asset type.

When you use the Purview resource sets (in preview) synchronization source, all assets such as Storage Account, Container, Directory, File, Table, and Column are constructed from Microsoft Purview resource-set entities. The Directory chain is rebuilt from path components, and the File asset represents the resource-set pattern path rather than a single physical file.

Asset type	Synchronized metadata	Public ID
ADLS Storage Account	File Storage contains / is part of Storage Container	FileStorageContainsFileContainer
ADLSContainer	Location	Location
ADLSContainer	Storage Container contains / is part of Storage Container	FileContainerContainsFileContainer
Directory	Storage Container contains / is part of Storage Container	FileContainerContainsFileContainer
Directory	Directory contains / is part of directory	DirectoryContainsDirectory
File	File Type	FileType
	Size	Size
	Storage Container contains / contained in File	FileContainerContainsFile
Table	Description	Description
Table	File contains / is part of Table	FileContainsTable
Column	Description	Description
	Column Position	ColumnPosition
	Technical Data Type Tip You see the technical data type in the Technical Data Type field in the At a glance sidebar of the Column asset. If the At a glance sidebar is hidden, click . For columns that have a structured technical data type, Array or Struct, click the hyperlink to see the structure of the data in a dialog box. In other locations, for example in Table assets, click the View Array or View Struct button to open the dialog box. This is supported for AVRO, CSV, JSON, ORC, PARQUET, PSV, SSV, TSV, TXT, and XML file formats. In the capability settings, you can define the maximum level you want to see in the structure. Show an example	TechnicalDataType
	Column is part of / contains Table	ColumnIsPartOfTable