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

Microsoft Fabric Dataflow Gen2: In-depth Performance Evaluation and Capacity Insights

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

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 DP-600 exam (beta) experiences

Today I took the Implementing Analytics Solutions Using Microsoft Fabric exam and in this blogpost I'll write about my experiences and feelings. There are other blogposts out there for you to read and compare experiences. Remember that all of these are personal views on the exams and opinions can differ. Preparation There's no way you'll … Continue reading Microsoft DP-600 exam (beta) experiences

Microsoft Fabric, comparing the F2 with the preview F64

If you've been having fun with Microsoft Fabric, chances are you've been playing around with the F64 capacity trial. This one is given to you by Microsoft for free but, since the GA data, the timer attached to it is counting down the days until you need to buy your own. Most blogs I've read … Continue reading Microsoft Fabric, comparing the F2 with the preview F64

2023 in review, 2024 in preview

It's the end of the year and we've all been bombarded with lists. From november on, things like Spotify wrapped started appearing (even though the year hadn't ended yet). It feels like the last month doesn't count anymore, even though there's a lot that can be done in december. That's why I'm waiting until the … Continue reading 2023 in review, 2024 in preview