Dennes Torres in Blogs Data Activator: The secrets of monitoring alerts Data Activator supports email and Teams alerts. These are good options when we would like to monitor some information and... 11 September 2024 2 min read
Dennes Torres Microsoft Fabric and PySpark: Coding tricks to improve your solutions PySpark has some unconventional syntaxes which provide power to the development process, making it easier. We talked about loops before. Let’s... 04 September 2024 4 min read
Dennes Torres in Blogs PySpark: The flexibility of a loop Pyspark has many flexible syntaxes which are not so common to other languages. One of these syntaxes is the loop... 15 August 2024 3 min read
Dennes Torres Microsoft Fabric: Using Lakehouse data in Real Time Dashboards Real-Time dashboards are a great feature in Real Time Intelligence experience to monitor our data. However, by default it’s made... 08 August 2024 2 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Microsoft Fabric: Differences Between %Run and Notebook.Run When developing notebooks in Microsoft Fabric, we have two different methods to call one notebook from another: %Run and MSSparkUtils.notebook.run... 31 July 2024 2 min read
Koen Verbeeck in BI How to Stream Data from Azure Event Hubs into a Fabric Eventhouse At Microsoft Build 2024, Real-Time Intelligence was announced with the Real-Time hub as its centralized location for all data-in-motion. This... 26 July 2024 9 min read
Dennes Torres in Blogs Microsoft Fabric: Moving Dataflows Gen 2 to different workspaces Dataflows Gen 2 are not supported by source control and deployment pipelines yet. When we need to promote a dataflow... 17 July 2024 2 min read
Dennes Torres in Blogs Microsoft Fabric: New Features you should not miss Microsoft Build was full of new features announcements and the fact it was so close to the Fabric May Updates... 10 July 2024 2 min read
Dennes Torres in Blogs Real-Time Intelligence: More than a name change When everyone starts to announce Real-Time Intelligence in Microsoft Fabric as something new, I need to double check what’s happening:... 03 July 2024 5 min read
Fabriano Richard in BI Microsoft Fabric, the Land of Wizards and Trolls In my previous article (What is Microsoft Fabric All About) I explained what Microsoft Fabric is, how it came about... 03 July 2024 9 min read
Dennes Torres in Blogs Fabric: The Secrets of Capacity Consumption Fabric Capacity consumption is exposed to us through a Power BI app called Fabric Capacity Metrics. We need to install... 19 June 2024 4 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Microsoft Fabric: Ingesting from API’s and the JSON result Ingesting from API’s is a common task to build a Data Intelligence repository. When making this ingestion in a Fabric... 12 June 2024 7 min read
Koen Verbeeck in BI Choosing Between the Lakehouse and Warehouse in Microsoft Fabric Microsoft Fabric is a new centralized, AI-powered cloud data platform hosted by Microsoft. It combines several services of the existing... 10 June 2024 20 min read
Dennes Torres in Blogs Purview and Microsoft Fabric: Better Together Microsoft create Purview, a data governance solution. Since Microsoft Fabric was in preview, there was a promise of a deeper... 29 May 2024 2 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs The Evolution of Time Travel in Fabric Data Warehouse The May Microsoft Fabric updates bring new about Time Travel in a Data Warehouse. This is good but surprising because... 24 May 2024 3 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Workspace Identity and Resource Instance Rules: More than simple features Sometimes, when a new feature is announced, it’s in fact hiding bigger changes on the entire environment. This is exactly... 22 May 2024 3 min read
BI Fabriano Richard in BI PowerBI premium capacity administration: dataset monitoring and tuning Over the years Power BI has evolved into a complex and varied ecosystem of tools and solutions, which in its... 13 May 2024 12 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Edit The JSON of a Fabric Pipeline A Fabric Pipeline uses JSON as source code. They are also saved in repositories as JSON. We first idea we... 08 May 2024 1 min read
Koen Verbeeck in BI How to Build Metadata Driven Pipelines in Microsoft Fabric Over the past years, “traditional” ETL development has morphed into data engineering, which has a more disciplined software engineering approach.... 06 May 2024 11 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs PySpark Secrets to use with Fabric PySpark is a powerful language for data manipulation and it’s full of tricks. Let’s discover some of them. Control the... 30 April 2024 3 min read