Using Copilot in Fabric Notebooks for Data Engineering: Quick Look
Andy Overview Probably one of the most hotly anticipated services is available within Fabric now, as Copilot in Fabric is now in public preview. See the official blog here for more…
DP-600 Fabric Analytics Engineer Skills Measured Breakdown and Resource Links
Overview As of 12th January 2024, the beta exam for the new Microsoft Certified: Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate is now available. This is the link to the certification page and…
Data Loading Options With Fabric Workspaces Part 1 of 2 – Yet Another Blog About The Medallion Architecture
This blog will be split over 2 parts, in this first part we'll look at the medallion architecture from the perspective of Microsoft Fabric implementation, (check a new doc from…
Exploring Fabric OneLake vs Azure Data Lake Gen2 Storage Accounts
Overview Recently I've been reading through Microsoft's documentation on implementing medallion lakehouse architecture in Microsoft Fabric (doc is here) and thinking about how to structure the workspaces & lakehouses to…
Explore This Data in Power BI is Simple But Effective for Basic Data Exploration
Well this new Explore This Data (link) feature in Power BI surprised me, both in terms of usefulness and in how much I'm currently using it. I don't usually spend…
Delta Lake Change Data Feed in Fabric Lakehouses
As I start to look at how to architect and develop data solutions using Microsoft Fabric, I come back to the thought in my head of how to detect changes…
New Microsoft Certification Coming in January 2024: Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate
Ignite is always exciting as there's always a bunch of new announcements, and included in this excitement is a new Microsoft certification, the Microsoft Certified: Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate. This…
#DataWeekender 6.5 Fabric SQL Warehouse Session
Here are the slides for my Fabric SQL Warehouse session at #DataWeekender 6.5. Download PDF now. Session Slideshow You can browse the session slides in the image gallery below.
Microsoft Applied Skills – Bite Sized Learning and Accreditation
Microsoft announced a new accreditation path recently called Microsoft Applied Skills (link here), a set of bite sized assessments in particular areas of MS technology. They're not designed to provide…
Fabric Lakehouse Loading using Data Pipelines & Notebooks – Inspired by MS End-to-End Tutorials
I joke about “I’m not much of a Spark Developer” all the time and I’m not joking, really I’m not. I’m a SQL developer. I’ve built Data Warehouses using SQL.…