Experiencing Microsoft Fabric Conference in Stockholm

After an almost full week of travelling, learning and meeting people, time for a short write up. Hello Stockholm! Or even hello Schiphol. When I walked up to the gate, it took the best part of a minute for the first Microsoft person to walk up to me and ask if I was on my … Continue reading Experiencing Microsoft Fabric Conference in Stockholm

Understanding Cross Workspace Data Transfer in Microsoft Fabric

When you open Fabric, the first thing you need to do is choose a so-called workspace. This serves as a container for all your Fabric items. You can have one or more workspaces and the design is entirely up to you. From one workspace to rule them all to one workspace for each set of … Continue reading Understanding Cross Workspace Data Transfer in Microsoft Fabric

Fabric Lakehouse Data Ingestion: CSV vs. SQL Scenarios

This blog will be a quite short one compared to the other blogs as it's more of an overview to show you the capacity of Fabric ingesting CSV files in their native format into a Lakehouse and ingesting SQL data into a table structure inside the Lakehouse. Simple, straightforward stuff without any form of modification. … Continue reading Fabric Lakehouse Data Ingestion: CSV vs. SQL Scenarios

Testing Microsoft Fabric Capacity: Data Warehouse vs Lakehouse Performance

I just can't seem to stop doing this, checking the limits of Microsoft Fabric. In this instalment I'll try and find some limits on the data warehouse experience and compare them with the Lakehouse experience. The data warehouse is a bit different compared to the Lakehouse, so I'll be digging into that one first. Then … Continue reading Testing Microsoft Fabric Capacity: Data Warehouse vs Lakehouse Performance

Fabric Conference key note first thoughts

Blog Alert! Arun Ulag shared some neat new developments on #MicrosoftFabric at the keynote. Here are my first thoughts on them! #mvpbuzz #FabCon

Loadtesting Fabric part 2, bringing Pain to Powerbi

In my previous blog on Fabric and loadtesting, I ended with not really knowing how PowerBI would respond to all these rows. After creating and presenting a session on this subject, it's time to dig into this part of Fabric as well. There were questions and I made promises. So here goes! This blog will … Continue reading Loadtesting Fabric part 2, bringing Pain to Powerbi

Speaking experiences at Fabric February, Oslo

Every now and then a special event comes up where you can’t help but think “I really, really want to be there”. This happened to me with Data Moshpit in Berlin and again with Fabric February. When the first information dropped, I was waiting for both the call for speakers and the ticket sales. There … Continue reading Speaking experiences at Fabric February, Oslo

Microsoft Fabric GA, and now?

Last week the big announcement came at Microsoft Ignite, Fabric is GA. Very cool, a lot of noise again for this shiny toolbox, but do we need to abandon everything and focus solely on the new toys? Before I'll answer that question, let's look at a few moving parts of Fabric. Integration The most important … Continue reading Microsoft Fabric GA, and now?

Microsoft Fabric, capacity usage and a design

This monday, I was lucky enough to attend the Fabric level 300 precon at dataMindsConnect. If you ever have the chance to go there, do it! It's very well organised, the sessions are amazing and so are all the people there. But that's not what this blog is about; today a Twitter thread started on … Continue reading Microsoft Fabric, capacity usage and a design

Microsoft Fabric: setting your spark compute pool size

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