UC assets ownership

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Change Unity Catalog assets ownership to follow the best practices mentioned on the groups section.
Change the ownership of the existing assets to the Metastore Admins | Unity Admins group.

Step-by-step guide for external locations - storage credentials - connections.

Check the screenshots.
On the workspace left panel, click on Catalog.
Click on ⚙️ and go to External Locations.
For each tab (External Locations, Credentials, Connections, External Metadata), change the owner of all assets to Metastore Admins | Unity Admins group.
- Click on the asset.
- On the far right, click the ✏️ edit button next to the owners name.
- There is going to be at most 3 storage locations and external locations.
  - Note: If the External Locations or Credentials tab is empty, probably you don't belong to the metastore Admins group.

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Access external locations, storage credentials, and connections by clicking the wheel icon (⚙️).
The first screenshot is going to be updated soon.

On the workspace left panel, click on Catalog.
For each catalog that is not the system catalog:
- Click the catalog.
- On the overview tab, search for the About this catalog section to find the Owner.
- Click the ✏️ icon to change the owner to Metastore Admins | Unity Admins group.

In Databricks, we use Schemas (aka Databases) to hold all the Unity Catalog assets (tables, views, models, etc..) for a specific project.
The Rule of Ownership: If a specific group is in charge of a project, that group should own the folder (Schema) too.
- i.e data-engineers group owns the project c360 therefore they must be the owners of c360_bronze, c360_silver and c360_gold schemas.

The governance best practices would be covered on 4. Data Governance Strategy.