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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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4 Reasons to use KustoDB for Real-Time

When implementing real-time ingestion, we usually implement an architecture called lambda. Using the lambda architecture, KustoDB in Microsoft Fabric is...

23 April 2024 2 min read

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Exploration Experience: Saving and Creating Datasets

I have been talking about Data Exploration in Power BI on many of my sessions, specially the sessions about Data...

17 April 2024 2 min read

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Fabric and Azure SQL in a few clicks: Mirroring a Database

Finally, mirroring is available for Fabric! You can mirror an Azure SQL to Fabric. It works for CosmoDB and Snowflake...

12 April 2024 11 min read

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Dynamic Partitioning and a Simple Incremental Load

Let’s consider a simple statement for partitioning and save a table in a lakehouse: df.write.mode("overwrite").format("delta").partitionBy("Year","Month","Day").save("Tables/" + table_name) Let’s consider we...

03 April 2024 2 min read

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Creating a Single JSON File for Configuration using Notebooks

On the blog Fabric Notebook and Deployment Pipelines I explained a technique to keep notebooks configuration values in JSON files...

27 March 2024 2 min read

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Power BI Available In MDX: Model Optimization

Optimize Power BI semantic models by disabling the Available In MDX property on unused fields. Reduce PBIX file size, memory...

20 March 2024 3 min read

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5 Secrets about Dataflows Gen 2

Dataflows Gen 2 are the new version of Power BI dataflows. There are so many changes in relation to the...

13 March 2024 5 min read

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Microsoft Fabric: New Features you should not miss

Real-Time Intelligence: More than a name change

Microsoft Fabric, the Land of Wizards and Trolls

Fabric: The Secrets of Capacity Consumption

Microsoft Fabric: Ingesting from API’s and the JSON result

Choosing Between the Lakehouse and Warehouse in Microsoft Fabric

Purview and Microsoft Fabric: Better Together

The Evolution of Time Travel in Fabric Data Warehouse

Workspace Identity and Resource Instance Rules: More than simple features

PowerBI premium capacity administration: dataset monitoring and tuning

Edit The JSON of a Fabric Pipeline

How to Build Metadata Driven Pipelines in Microsoft Fabric

PySpark Secrets to use with Fabric

4 Reasons to use KustoDB for Real-Time

Exploration Experience: Saving and Creating Datasets

Fabric and Azure SQL in a few clicks: Mirroring a Database

Dynamic Partitioning and a Simple Incremental Load

Creating a Single JSON File for Configuration using Notebooks

Power BI Available In MDX: Model Optimization

5 Secrets about Dataflows Gen 2