---
title: "Lineage-aware lakehouse governance"
slug: "lineage-aware-governance"
type: recipe
locale: en-US
canonical: "https://www.coremodels.io/recipe/databricks/lineage-aware-governance"
updatedAt: "2026-08-27T01:42:16+03:00"
---

# Lineage-aware lakehouse governance

Govern tables with the dependency graph that explains them.

Import information_schema, keys and system.access.table_lineage together: each lineage row becomes a Depends-On edge (the produced table depends on what it reads), deduplicated, with cross-extract endpoints flagged external rather than dropped, so cross-estate dependencies stay visible without pretending to govern the far side. Constraints become checks and references, composite-key aware.

## Articles

- [Anatomy of an Import: How a Unity Catalog Estate Becomes a Governed Graph](https://www.coremodels.io/connector/databricks/t5-deep-dive)
- [Follow One Table Across Your Stack](https://www.coremodels.io/connector/databricks/h4-ecosystem)