In this blog and associated video, we'll dig into the Spark workspace settings. First we'll discuss what workspaces are in relation to Spark, then we'll dig into the Spark settings to give you an overview. As with all our blogs and video's, we strongly advise you to take this material as a starting point and … Continue reading DP-700 exam training: Configure Spark workspace settings
About two weeks ago, the DP-700 (Microsoft Fabric Data Engineer) went into beta. This means that curious people like me can take the exam, see what's in it and provide feedback to the people who wrote the questions. To add to fun, I decided to take the exam online as the exam centres close by … Continue reading What to Expect from the DP-700 Microsoft Certification Exam
For those of you who either attended Fabric Conference Europe and/or have some sort of social media account, it won't come as a huge surprise that Microsoft is launching a new certification. If you're working with Microsoft Fabric and focusing on the data engineering part of things, this certification is for you! What is it? … Continue reading Mastering the DP-700: Your Guide to Microsoft Fabric Certification
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
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
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
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
Blog Alert! Arun Ulag shared some neat new developments on #MicrosoftFabric at the keynote. Here are my first thoughts on them! #mvpbuzz #FabCon
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
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
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