Other Dennes Torres in Other 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
Other Dennes Torres in Other 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
BI Dennes Torres in BI 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
Other Dennes Torres in Other 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
Other Dennes Torres in Other 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
Other Dennes Torres in Other 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
Other Dennes Torres in Other Reverse Creating the PBIP file from Source Control On my article about Source Control with GIT, Power BI and Microsoft Fabric, I illustrate how to use the PBIP... 06 March 2024 3 min read
Other Dennes Torres in Other Customizing Kusto (Data Explorer) Connections in Deployment pipeline When organizing our SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) in Power BI/Fabric, we use Deployment Pipelines and create rules to change connection... 28 February 2024 2 min read
Other Dennes Torres in Other Eventstream and the new KQL Processing Eventstream has many differences in relation to the technologies it proposes to replace. Event Hub, Stream Analytics, Streaming Dataflows and... 21 February 2024 2 min read
Other Dennes Torres in Other 4 Rules to follow on Microsoft Fabric Source Control Power BI and Fabric are implementing source control support. It’s a long-awaited feature for Power BI. However, it’s important to... 14 February 2024 4 min read
BI Dennes Torres in BI Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches in Microsoft Fabric Nikola Ilic, best known as Data Mozart, published a great article and video about how to make semantic model data... 25 January 2024 9 min read
Other Dennes Torres in Other Power BI and Resource Graph: Why you should care Recently Azure Resource Graph was announced as a new connector in Power BI. Azure Resource Graph provides access to almost... 23 January 2024 1 min read
Other Dennes Torres in Other Fabric and Self-Service: Control who can use We can say Fabric is the evolution of the Power BI environment. Power BI is a self-service environment, and so... 17 January 2024 2 min read
Other Dennes Torres in Other Semantic Model: More than a Simple Name Change The animation on the top of this article tries to track the evolution of the enterprise architecture since SQL Server... 10 January 2024 3 min read
BI Dennes Torres in BI Using Spark Jobs for Multiple Lakehouse Maintenance in Microsoft Fabric I have published videos and articles before about Lakehouse maintenance. In this article I want to address a missing point... 17 December 2023 12 min read
Other Dennes Torres in Other 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.... 13 December 2023 8 min read
Dennes Torres Microsoft Fabric: Extended Source Control Features The source control features in Microsoft Fabric are evolving every day. The PBIP feature included in Power BI allowed us... 29 November 2023 3 min read
Other Dennes Torres in Other Updates about Database Projects for Microsoft Fabric comp A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog about Database Projects for Microsoft Fabric. It’s an interesting advance, but... 26 November 2023 4 min read
Other Dennes Torres in Other Microsoft Fabric: Using VS Code to Develop Notebooks The possibility to use Visual Studio Code (or VS Code) to develop your Microsoft Fabric notebooks seems very interesting. It... 15 November 2023 9 min read
Other Dennes Torres in Other 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... 08 November 2023 5 min read