Each week I’ll be interviewing experts and users alike on their experience with Fabric, warts and all. I can guarantee that we’ll have voices you aren’t used to...
Apologies for the audio; I stupidly forgot to double check my mic this episode.In this episode, Erin Dempster gives us an outside view of fabric focused on CI/CD. We talk about both deployment pipelines and devops pipelines and how she uses both tools in concert. This episode is interesting because it touches on the challenges of integrating a variety of data sources for an insurance company and using CI/Cd to keep everything in sync.PBIP file formatPBIR file formatDeployment PipelinesDevops PipelinesAutomating tests for broken visuals
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Ep. 7 - Semantic Link and Semantic Link Labs
In this episode, Stephanie Bruno talks about semantic link and semantic link labs, which allow you to better manage your Power BI resources with Fabric notebooks. Semantic allows you to query and work directly with your semantic model. Semantic Link Labs allows you to automate running the best practices analyzer against your model. I've heard nothing but great things about it.LinksSemantic LinkSemantic Link LabsFabric.guru by Sandeep PawarFabric Notebook UtilsSemantic best practicesReport AnalyzerSNL Shimmer skitChatGPT to document measures
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Ep 6. Scouting out Fabric
In this episode, Krystina Mishra talks about being an accidental Fabric admin. She talks about the challenges of being part of a centralized IT team that operational and business teams. She talks about the challenges of how everything with Dynamics 365 is slightly different than every other data source and how everything is convoluted with Synapse. She also talks about how there are nuanced differences between a P1 and an F64.LinksDynamics Great Plains schemaHow to Have Confidence and Power in Dealing with PeopleWhat is a thermoclineFabric surge protectionFabric capacity metrics appSatisfactory video gameWhat is Brownian MotionFundamentals of Microsoft FabricKansas City SQL User Group
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Ep. 5 - Realtime Intelligence
In this Episode, Frank Geisler explains Realtime Intelligence in Microsoft Fabric. We learn how RTI is its own thing in Fabric and is not directly backed by Parquet like a Lakehouse is. We also dig into the distinction between real-time analytics and real-time intelligence. The latter is not just reporting but being able to trigger activity based on it.LinksFabric Realtime IntelligenceKQL languageKusto DetectiveRealtime DashboardData ActivatorFrank's TutorialsMicrosoft Sentinel and KQL
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Ep 4. Fabric Lakehouse versus Warehouse
In this episode, Ginger Grant talks about the differences between warehouse and lakehouses in Fabric. We talk about how Warehouses make more sense if you are doing a lot of ad-hoc querying. In most other cases, Lakehouse will be easier and fewer steps.LinksLakehouse versus Warehouse decision guideDelta lake vacuumPolaris engine behind Fabric WarehouseLakehouse versus Warehouse (Advancing Analytics)Fabric surge protection (preview)
Over Figuring Out Fabric: Learn Fabric in 30 minutes.
Each week I’ll be interviewing experts and users alike on their experience with Fabric, warts and all. I can guarantee that we’ll have voices you aren’t used to and perspectives you won’t expect.Each episode will be 30 minutes long with a single topic, so you can listen during your commute or while you exercise. Skip the topics you aren’t interested in. This will be a podcast that respects your time and your intelligence. No 2 hour BS sessions.