Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Shortcuts, Capacities and Costs : Some Considerations Let’s start with a question: Question: Where is the cost charted when one or more shortcuts in a lakehouse points to a table located in... 23 October 2024 3 min read
Microsoft Fabric Dennes Torres in Microsoft Fabric Using a Service Account in Microsoft Fabric Applications should never depend on user accounts for their own authentication. User accounts have unique security configurations, such as MFA and password expiration. Applications can’t... 16 October 2024 4 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 We need to decide which... 31 July 2024 2 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Fabric Notebooks and Deployment Pipelines On my article about Fabric source control extended features, I explained how Microsoft included the notebooks on the source control. In this way we can... 13 December 2023 8 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Fabric Data Warehouse News you need to know Microsoft Fabric, including the Data Warehouse, evolves faster than we can analyze and write about it. Here I’m summarizing the most recent news I looked... 08 November 2023 5 min read
Dennes Torres Microsoft Fabric: Checking and Fixing Tables V-Order Optimization Download the notebook used on this blog I explained in a previous article how the Tables in a lakehouse are V-Order optimized. We noticed this... 20 September 2023 5 min read
Dennes Torres Microsoft Fabric: using Notebooks and Table Partitioning to Convert Files to Tables When Microsoft Fabric was born, the only method to convert files to tables was using notebooks. Nowadays we have an easy-to-use UI feature for the... 13 September 2023 5 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs What’s new on Power BI DataMarts UI I wrote an article about Power BI Datamarts which was released together the feature, on the exact moment it was being announced in a conference.... 12 December 2022 3 min read
Dennes Torres in Blogs Data Platform: Links to Study and Learn Last Friday I appeared in the middle of a Brazilian Twitch live made by a friend and while they were talking and studying, I provided... 29 March 2021 4 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs The Game Changed: Power BI Premium per User Until now, one common knowledge about Power BI was how Power BI Premium subscription is expensive. We, regular mortals, could only dream with the full... 08 March 2021 2 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Parameter Sniffing or not sniffing: The Mindset change for new technologies Parameter sniffing is a common challenge for query tuning. The usual solution we recommend is to apply a recompile option, rather to a stored procedure... 01 March 2021 7 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Data Warehouse Concepts and the mix of names and technologies Once upon a time, we got the Data Warehouse concept. A concept as great as difficult to implement. The definition of this concept may surprise... 17 August 2020 6 min read
