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Getting Started
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General Overview
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Application Modules
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- Dataflow Modeling - Overview
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Generators
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Discovery application
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Best Practices
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FAQs
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Product Release Notes
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Legal Documents
Understand the Discovery application
Discovery application
The Discovery application uses metadata ingestion to produce discovery files.
It is a portable application that requires no installation or additional tools.
It uses pull-based metadata ingestion: it ingests metadata from data systems by connecting to them and extracting metadata in a file.
Sources
The Discovery application can discover metadata from multiple sources, such as Microsoft SQL Server, CSV files, Snowflake, and Oracle.
In this Knowledge Base, we explain how to use the Discovery application and details to configure a discovery for each available source type.