Background jobs

Background job kinds

The Background Jobs tab names each job by what it does. This reference lists those names, grouped by area. Names followed by “— …” include the object’s name, such as “Generate Description — Customer”.

Schemas¶

Job name	What it does	Started from
Generate Description — object	Writes an AI description for one table, view, procedure, or function.	The object’s page
Generate Description — Schema: schema	Writes AI descriptions across a schema.	The schema’s bulk description action
Import Descriptions — schema	Applies descriptions from a file you upload.	`Import Descriptions` on the schema’s `Info` tab
SQL Object Analysis — object	Works out what a view, procedure, function, or script depends on and does.	Saving or importing SQL objects
Import Database Objects	Reads objects from a saved database connection for review.	Importing from a connection
Apply Database Objects	Adds the objects you selected in that review to the schema.	The import review
Duplicate Schema — Dialect Conversion	Converts procedure bodies, views, and defaults when you copy a schema to another SQL dialect.	Duplicating a schema

Schema imports from a file don’t appear here. They have their own tab, Schema Imports. See Watch import progress.

Pipelines¶

Job name	What it does
AI Rename	Suggests readable destination names for cryptic source columns.
Generate Procedures	Generates the load procedures (or notebooks) for a Pipeline’s target tables.
Finalize Pipeline	Creates the Pipeline’s tables, columns, and procedures in the destination schema.

See Pipelines overview.

Star schemas¶

Job name	What it does
Star Schema Design	The AI design run that proposes dimensions and facts.
Star Schema Build	Builds the planned tables, views, and load procedures.
Star Schema View Build	Drafts the source-view SQL for one star schema item with AI.
Star Schema Drift Check / Star Schema Drift Heal	Checks a plan against changes in its source schema and repairs what it can.

See Star schema overview.

Ontologies¶

Job name	What it does
Ontology Generation — ontology	The Ontology Generator’s agent run.
Ontology Import	Loads an ontology from a file.
Standard Import	Loads an industry standard as an ontology.
Generate Descriptions — ontology or class	Writes AI descriptions for an ontology’s entities, or for one class’s members.
Binding Suggestions	AI suggestions for binding an ontology to a lakehouse.
Database Binding Suggestions	AI suggestions for binding an ontology to a database.
Database Schema Refresh	Re-reads a bound database’s tables and columns.
Ontology Version Deploy	Pushes a saved ontology version to a Microsoft Fabric environment.
Ontology Sync	Pulls from or pushes to Microsoft Fabric.
Refresh Fabric source versions, Reconcile ontology sync, Ontology maintenance, Ontology entity projection	Housekeeping that keeps sync state and ontology lookups current.

See Ontologies overview.

Business context and agents¶

Job name	What it does
Process document ingestion	Reads, splits, and indexes an uploaded process document.
Process document cleanup	Removes the indexed content of a deleted document.
Data Agent question pool	Prepares suggested questions for the Data Agent.

Billing¶

Job name	What it does
Token Period Rollover	Starts a new AI usage period for the organization.