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Microsoft Azure Blob Storage

Microsoft Azure Blob Storage is a cloud-based object storage for storing unstructured data on Microsoft's data storage platform.

Objects extracted

Metadata Command Center extracts the following metadata from a Microsoft Azure Blob Storage source system:

•Storage Account
•Container
•Folder
•File
•Hierarchical File (AVRO, JSON, Parquet, XML, XSD)
•Flat File (CSV and Delimited files)
•Hierarchical Field (AVRO, JSON, Parquet, XML, XSD)
•Flat Field (CSV and Delimited files)
•Iceberg Table
•Iceberg Field

You can extract workbooks, worksheets, and columns from Microsoft Excel files.

File types

You can extract metadata from the following file types:

•AVRO
•CSV
•JSON
•Parquet
•TSV
•TXT
•XML (XML and XSD files)
•Delimited files
•Flat Partition Detection files
•Multilevel Partition Detection files

The following table lists the structures associated with the file types that you can extract metadata from:

File Type	Partition structure
AVRO	Single partition, multiple partitions, schema merge
CSV	Single partition, multiple partitions, schema merge
JSON	Single partition, multiple partitions, schema merge
Parquet	Single partition, multiple partitions, schema merge
XML	Single partition, multiple partitions, schema merge

You can extract metadata from XML and XSD file formats as XML file objects. Metadata Command Center extracts only elements and attributes from XML and XSD files. If the size of the XML file exceeds 100 KB, Metadata Command Center extracts metadata from the initial 100 KB of the file. However, for XSD file types, Metadata Command Center extracts complete metadata.

You can extract metadata from the following Microsoft Excel file types:

•Excel 97-2003 Workbook with XLS extension
•Excel Workbook with XLSX extension
•Excel Macro-Enabled Workbook with XLSM extension