Before you create a catalog source, ensure that you have the information required to connect to the source system.
Perform the following tasks:
•Assign the required permissions.
•Configure a connection to the Microsoft Fabric Data Lakehouse source system in Administrator.
•Create endpoint catalog sources for connection assignment.
Verify permissions
To extract metadata and to configure other capabilities that a catalog source might include, you need account access and permissions on the source system. The permissions required might vary depending on the capability.
Permissions for metadata extraction
To extract metadata from Microsoft Fabric data lakehouses within a Microsoft Fabric workspace, you need access to the workspace with viewer or higher permissions.
Ensure that you have the following permissions:
•select on sys.all_columns
•select on sys.all_objects
•select on sys.all_parameters
•select on sys.database_principals
•select on sys.databases
•select on sys external_tables
•select on sys.extended_properties
•select on sys.external_data_sources (optional)
Note: Assign this permission to work with external data sources.
•select on sys.foreign_key_columns
•select on sys.indexes
•select on sys.index_columns
•select on sys.partitions
•select on sys.schemas
•select on sys.sql_modules
•select on sys.synonyms
•select on sys.types
•select on sys.tables
•select on sys.table_types
Permissions to run data profiles
You can run profiles with the permissions required to perform metadata extraction.
Permissions to run data classification
You can perform data classification with the permissions required to perform metadata extraction.
Permissions to run glossary association
You can perform glossary association with the permissions required to perform metadata extraction.
Create a connection
Before you configure the Microsoft Fabric Data Lakehouse catalog source, create a connection object in Administrator.
Use the Microsoft Entra ID service principal, formerly known as Azure Active Directory, to create a Microsoft Fabric Data Lakehouse connection in Administrator.
1In Administrator, select Connections.
2Click New Connection.
3Enter properties specific to the Microsoft Fabric Data Lakehouse connection:
Property
Description
Connection Name
Name of the connection.
Each connection name must be unique within the organization. Connection names can contain alphanumeric characters, spaces, and the following special characters: _ . + -,
Maximum length is 255 characters.
Description
Description of the connection. Maximum length is 4000 characters.
Type
Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse
Runtime Environment
The name of the runtime environment where you want to run tasks.
Select a Secure Agent, Hosted Agent, or serverless runtime environment.
SQL Connection String
The SQL connection string to connect to Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse.
Specify the connection string in the following format:
<Server>.lakehouse.pbidedicated.windows.net
Client ID
The application ID or client ID of your application registered in Azure Active Directory for service principal authentication.
Client Secret
The client secret for your application registered in Azure Active Directory.
Tenant ID
The tenant ID of your application registered in Azure Active Directory.
Workspace
The name of the workspace in Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse that you want to connect.
Database
The name of the database in Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse that you want to connect.
4Click Test Connection.
Create endpoint catalog sources for connection assignment
An endpoint catalog source represents a source system that the catalog source references. Before you perform connection assignment, create endpoint catalog sources and run the catalog source jobs.
You can then perform connection assignment to reference source systems and run connection-aware scans to view complete lineage with source system objects.