This blogpost will be introductory to version control within Microsoft Fabric. If you've got the basics of this under control, you're welcome to refresh your knowledge in this blog or check out our points of view. Alternatively, you can dig into the blogposts by Kevin Chant who has a lot of good posts on this … Continue reading DP-700: Configure version control
By the time you read this, I'm guessing the big #MSIgnite announcements were yesterday. You can use that hashtag to find most of the posts on social media. And there were many, very cool, announcements! Let me quickly take you through my favourites. Databases! As I still love the DBA work, announcing SQL Server 2025 … Continue reading Top Highlights from #MSIgnite 2024
OneLake, the OneDrive for all your data, the One Lake to rule them all or however you've heard it being described. Whatever you've heard, OneLake is the single storage on your tenant used to store all the data of your Fabric Capacities. About OneLake The core point to remember is that your tenant has just … Continue reading DP-700 Exam training: Configure OneLake workspace settings
In the previous blog, you read about the Spark settings within the workspace. This time it's about the domain settings. So let's dig into what domains are, what you can use them for and which settings there are. What are domains? If you read (and you should) the excellent book on data architectures by James … Continue reading DP-700 exam training: Configure Domain workspace settings
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
In my previous blogs, I've been hammering Fabric with data from some different angles. Either with the Copy dataflows, notebooks, Pipelines, Data Warehouse SQL scripts or in PowerBI.This time, I'm going to make the dataflow Gen2 work for it's money. As usual, I'm using the F2 capacity as it's the one that should break the … Continue reading Microsoft Fabric Dataflow Gen2: In-depth Performance Evaluation and Capacity Insights
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