topic Re: Lakehouse/warehouse tables fields description as metadata for Data Governance in Data Warehouse

Lakehouse/warehouse tables fields description as metadata for Data Governance

amaaiia — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 09:48:22 GMT

Is there any way to Catalog tables in Lakehouse and Warehouse in Fabric? Is it possible to add a description for the columns, description of tables, etc? I know with Purview we can have some metadada of a lakehouse, but with info like owner, name, id, creation_date, etc. General data of the lakehouse. Is it possible to describe fields?

Re: Lakehouse/warehouse tables fields description as metadata for Data Governance

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 19:46:51 GMT

Hi amaaiia
Thanks for using Fabric Community.
Fabric doesn't currently offer built-in functionality for adding descriptions directly to columns or tables. Purview is the only option at this time.

Hope this helps.

Re: Lakehouse/warehouse tables fields description as metadata for Data Governance

amaaiia — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 05:44:36 GMT

Does Purview allow to add column descriptions into Fabric Lakehouses and Warehouses? I can't find this feature in Purview.

Re: Lakehouse/warehouse tables fields description as metadata for Data Governance

Anonymous — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 08:31:49 GMT

Hi amaaiia
I meant to say that currently, Fabric does not offer built-in functionality for adding descriptions directly to columns or tables in Lakehouses and Warehouse. But as you stated you can use Purview for getting some metadata related to Lakehouse.
Thanks

Re: Lakehouse/warehouse tables fields description as metadata for Data Governance

SidAdvani — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 15:52:18 GMT

Is there any way to get this feature added to Fabric. We have it in SQL Server and whyle Purview can be used to accomplish this task, it is not necessary that the users are going to use Purview which is why having a place to store some metadata at a lakehouse as well as a warehouse level would be very beneficial.