Fabric Architecture: Azure Tenants
Andy Overview Our Fabric Architecture journey starts with Azure Tenants (the kick-off blog in this series is here with a few jumping-off links to get started with thinking about Fabric Architecture).…
Microsoft Fabric Architecture
Overview Whoa! That's quite a headline... What, we're going to deal with the whole of Microsoft Fabric Architecture in a single blog post! No I'm not, that would be a…
Beta Deployment Framework for Materialized Lake Views in Fabric
Overview I like declarative frameworks and I find great value in services/tools like Dbt and Databricks Delta Live Tables (sorry, Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines) where I don't really want to be…
Deploying Case Insensitive Warehouse using Deployment Pipelines
Overview I wrote a blog post last year on Fabric Warehouses and the new Case Insensitive collation, you can read more here. One of the issues that Case Insensitive Warehouses…
Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery in Fabric
Overview I've been turning my attention to disaster recovery processes in Microsoft Fabric recently, to understand what can be done in the event of the unthinkable happening...I'll likely dive deeper…
Working with Dbt and The Fabric Warehouse
Overview Welcome to the world of Microsoft Fabric Warehouses and the deployment of data loading projects using Dbt (Data Build Tool). In this blog I'll work through how these technologies…
Table Relationships in Fabric Warehouses: Impact on the Semantic Model
Overview Relationships are tricky at the best of times...but working with relationships between tables in Fabric Warehouses and Semantic Models has some nuances that I'd like to share. We'll first…
Exploring Open Mirroring in Microsoft Fabric
Overview Announced at Microsoft Ignite on November 24 were a batch of new features for Fabric, the most exciting and useful to me was Open Mirroring. This feature allows data…
Video: Fabric Open Mirroring: Mirror Any Data Into Fabric?
Fresh from Microsoft Ignite on November 24, Microsoft has introduced a new feature in Fabric, Open Mirroring. This feature allows you to mirror data from any source (well, we'll go into…
Performance Analysis of V-Ordering in Fabric Warehouse: On or Off?
Overview V-Order is Microsoft's "special sauce" to further optimise data within Parquet files and is a read optimiser feature. V-Order also helps optimise Power BI DirectLake functionality. However, V-Order comes…