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Naming Azure Purview Scans

Daniel Janik treats Azure Purview scans like pets rather than cattle:

If you’ve ever been a DBA and seen the mess that you get with SQL Agent Jobs without a clean naming standard for your job schedules and job names then you’ll appreciate this tip.

If you haven’t been a DBA that’s OK too. Years ago I came up with my own naming standard for SQL Agent artifacts and I’ve always felt better when the messy room was clean. No Really! That’s exactly what this is like. A messy room where you are pretty sure you put the item you’re looking for in but you just can’t seem to find it until you clean 95% of the mess and then you’re so exhausted that you don’t have time to do what you wanted to in the first place. Ever been there?

Read on to see what the scans look like by default, as well as some thoughts Daniel has regarding a better way to do things.