This next blog won't be a long one and will probably serve most as a reminder for myself where to find the settings for the Spark compute pool. When you create a workspace, you get the default starter pool and it has taken me way longer than I care to admit to find where to … Continue reading Microsoft Fabric: setting your spark compute pool size
Yes, I've been at it again with Microsoft Fabric, and as I'm trying to find the limits of this new cool toy, the limits sometimes get angry with me and throw an error. Most of the time this error is caused by me and I can usually figure out what's happening, but not always. Exit … Continue reading Notebook exit code 137. Cause and solution
In a blog from a few weeks ago, I wrote about getting data from your on-prem SQL Server into Fabric. At the time, the only option for a copy dataflow was using a direct connection over the internet. It still is, but now you can also use the PowerBI Data Gateway to get data from … Continue reading Getting on-premises data into Microsoft Fabric using the data gateway
A few days ago, I heard the term table clone for the first time, it's preview release date was to be confirmed and I had no idea what it was about. Two days later, a video emerged where the table clone was explained on a high level. At that point, I started to wonder what … Continue reading Microsoft Fabric: shortcuts and table clones
I was teaching a class and during an interesting discussing an attendee told me that views with a filter took a long time to produce results, even if the result set itself was quite small. I wanted to test this out for myself to see what was happening. I'll take you along this short journey … Continue reading View with a where clause
In my previous blogs, I've written about Fabric and all the cool things it can do. Thing is, my load tests were based on files. Either CSV or Delta. But in reality, a lot of data comes from an on-premises database server. In reality, you might connect to a SQL 2008 instance or maybe even … Continue reading Microsoft Fabric, connect to your on-premises SQL Server
In my previous four blogposts, I've shared some first impressions and small things I discovered since the preview release. Again, the preview release. New features are added, bugs are fixed and additions are released. When I asked if there's a GA release date, there was no answer. And I can guess why, it's hard to … Continue reading Microsoft Fabric, impact on my daily work
When Fabric released, there was a lot of noise around it. Many people have written blogs, created YouTube video's and all kinds of other interesting things to share the love of this new tooling. Well, new? Especially when you look at Fabric data warehouse, it's more of an iteration over Synapse Analytics Serverless Pools. As … Continue reading Microsoft Fabric, Data Warehouse first impressions
Whilst working on a blogpost on Fabric Data Warehouse, I started wondering if I could work around the SQL web interface and connect to my OneLake with SSMS and/or ADS. As it turns out, you can! Find the connection-string To be honest, this was the hardest part as the connection-string is somewhat hidden. In your … Continue reading Microsoft Fabric, connect SQL Server Management Studio, Azure Data Studio or Windows Explorer to your OneLake
In my previous blog, I wrote about some first impression working with Fabric and mostly following the Lakehouse tutorial provided by Microsoft. Well structured as this one may be, the sizes are not like the sizes I'm seeing in the wild. So I decided to give Fabric a bit more of a challenge by letting … Continue reading Microsoft Fabric, fooling around with TPC-H data
