Dennes Torres in Blogs Shortcuts, Capacities and Costs : Some Considerations Edit on 25/10/2024: According to some official documentations, there is an inaccuracy on this blog. The costs involved on data and processing are broken down... 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
Dennes Torres in Blogs Cloud Connections in Microsoft Fabric I wrote about cloud connections when they were in a very early stage. Cloud connections evolved and are now sharable. We call the “regular” connection... 09 October 2024 4 min read
Dennes Torres in Blogs Infinity Notebook Loop in Fabric using Data Activator Data Activator allow us to make an interesting workaround for infinity notebook executions. Infinity execution loop is interesting for constant data ingestion, but Fabric doesn’t... 20 September 2024 4 min read
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 receive alerts about it. However,... 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 discover some more tricks to... 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 format. Loops in PySpark can... 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 to work only with Kusto... 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 We need to decide which... 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 shows the commitment of Microsoft... 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 from Dev to Test and... 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 only helped to overwhelm us... 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: Am I crazy or is... 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 and whether it brings anything... 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 this app on our environment... 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 Lakehouse, there are many tricks... 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 Azure Data Platform – such... 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 integration between Fabric and this... 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 this feature is available for... 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 what happens with these Workspace... 22 May 2024 3 min read