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A data platform team plans to rename a column in main.sales.orders, one of the most widely reused tables in the lakehouse. Before making the change, the lead engineer must identify every job, query, dashboard, and downstream table that reads from it, without instrumenting any code. What does Unity Catalog provide for this need?

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  1. A. Unity Catalog captures lineage automatically, and Catalog Explorer's Lineage tab shows the table's downstream jobs and dashboards.
  2. B. Lineage becomes available only after the team enables a dedicated capture job for each table that needs to be tracked.
  3. C. Lineage tracks Lakeflow Jobs and pipelines but excludes queries run in Databricks SQL and the dashboards built on them.
  4. D. Unity Catalog offers no lineage capability of its own, so every consuming team must maintain a manual catalog that documents its dependencies.
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Correct answer: Unity Catalog captures lineage automatically, and Catalog Explorer's Lineage tab shows the table's downstream jobs and dashboards.

Reference: https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/data-governance/unity-catalog/

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