Data quality scans for standalone data assets enable organizations to measure and improve data quality

February 2026

Data Governance

• In preview: Data quality scans for standalone data assets enable organizations to measure and improve data quality immediately without associating a data asset to a data product, significantly speeding up governance adoption. By running scans on assets, organizations can decide whether to associate a data asset to a data product if the data asset is in poor quality.
• General availability (GA): Azure SQL Managed Instance support (SQL MI) is now generally available. You can now measure, understand, and improve the quality of your data in your SQL MI. Both public network and private endpoint configurations are supported. To get started, create a connection similar to Azure SQL database with supported port number, and assess the quality of your data using the Microsoft Purview Data Quality scanner.