23 posts — Microsoft Fabric is an all-in-one analytics solution for enterprises that covers everything from data movement to data science, Real-Time Analytics, and business intelligence. It offers a suite of services, including data lake, data engineering, and data integration, all in one place. With Fabric, you don't need to piece together different services from vendors. Instead, you can enjoy a highly integrated, end-to-end, and easy-to-use product that is designed to simplify your analytics needs.
Let's look into some of the new features announced in Microsoft Fabric's September 2023 Update that I find very exciting. Especially for Data Engineers that wants to carry their Fabric artefacts across environments.
The much awaited Synapse Link Dataverse capability for Fabric is here. You can now create a managed Lakehouse within your Fabric tenant with a few clicks, and send your Dataverse data (including Microsoft Dynamics 365) directly into Fabric as delta tables.
In this design series, we're going to be using Microsoft Fabric to design a corporate-wide Lakehouse, and demonstrate its capabilities.
In this design series, we're going to be using Microsoft Fabric to design a corporate-wide Lakehouse, and demonstrate its capabilities.
In this design series, we're going to be using Microsoft Fabric to design a corporate-wide Lakehouse, and demonstrate its capabilities.
In this design series, we're going to be using Microsoft Fabric to design a corporate-wide Lakehouse, and demonstrate its capabilities.
In this design series, we're going to be using Microsoft Fabric to design a corporate-wide Lakehouse, and demonstrate its capabilities.
ADLS Gen2 has a neat feature allowing you to expose an SFTP endpoint from your storage. Any files uploaded land on the storage account directly. This feature isn’t available in OneLake, but that doesn’t mean you can’t combine ADLS Gen2 and OneLake to achieve SFTP ingestion.
August has been a month full of developments for the Microsoft Fabric community. Becoming a more mature product daily, Fabric will quickly find a place in many companies' data platform landscapes. Let's dive into August 2023 updates and pick out our favourites.
Azure Durable Functions are convenient when you need to do long-running custom operations. Now, like Synapse and Azure Data Factory, we can call Durable Functions from Fabric pipelines. Let’s dive into how.
Fabric currently lacks the capability to call Synapse pipelines, which prevents Fabric from joining forces with your existing Synapse investment. However, Synapse pipelines can be triggered via the REST API, and with the recent Service Principal support in Fabric, we can do that with AAD auth.
Dataverse is the superpower that backs Power Platform and Microsoft Dynamics 365, allowing you to keep your data in table format without the fuss of database management. Let's connect it to your Fabric instance and make the data available for Power BI Direct Lake support.
Let's use Medallion Architecture in Microsoft Fabric and build a Lakehouse using Pipelines and Dataflows. We'll also discuss the responsibilities and the structure of the Bronze, Silver and Gold layers of the OneLake.
You can now use Azure AD (Microsoft Entra ID) Service Principals in Fabric Dataflows when connecting to various Azure and web resources, including Synapse Analytics, ADLS Gen2, Azure Blob Storage and Microsoft Dataverse.
Although there are many good resources online explaining how to start using Microsoft Fabric, there is a lack of guidance on adopting Fabric if you already invested in Synapse Analytics. Nothing prevents you from using Synapse Analytics and Fabric together.
Microsoft Fabric might be an upgrade to the Power BI game, but how do you move forward when you already have a massive investment in a data platform on your Azure cloud?
Microsoft Fabric extends the Power BI workspaces with more item types, but those workspaces come with a lot of baggage. If you're coming from Azure Synapse Analytics or Data Factory, it may not be easy to figure out how to utilise workspaces best. We'll dive into it in this article.
Announced as part of Microsoft Fabric, OneLake is a tenant-wide managed data lake storage. More end-user friendly than ADLS Gen2, it gives a OneDrive-like experience to the users. Let's compare OneLake and ADLS Gen2's features.
Fabric receives more and more features every day, and it’s getting more exciting. Honestly, it feels like Christmas every time these updates are released. I picked 5 most-important updates from the July 2023 announcement for you to review.
Fabric differs significantly from more traditional data platforms like Synapse Analytics and Databricks. It gives it ease of use, but it also takes away some features away. In this article, we’ll be talking about those differences, and when to use Fabric, when to avoid it.
Data warehouses would grow out of size, become underperforming, require scaling up and become costly. They would become a black hole in the company’s budget, and people spend more effort to keep it alive and breathing, rather than getting value out of that investment. Let’s go through some mistakes.
I finally got the time to provision myself a trial version of Microsoft Fabric to explore its capabilities and bend it to my will. It’s new and shiny, but it’s still in preview, so we’ll see how the end product will look like in a year. But I wanted to share my first impressions of it.
Lakehouses are basically Data Warehouses built on top of Data Lakes using primarily Spark-based data processing technologies. They make the data processing, reporting, and analytics a breeze, but there’s nothing groundbreaking about them.
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