Azure DevOps has been around the data block for a few years now, and its Git Integration features have allowed developers to perform the following crucial tasks (there are many others, but these are my top three): Backup and version control their work (I’m sure all of you conscientious Devs do this. Don’t you???). Revert… READ MORE
Synapse Link is a great capability, and with the recent news from Microsoft published today, it got even better: Now you can link your Dataverse and Fabric together and query directly from within your Fabric workspace. The best part? It’s completely managed. Apart from a few clicks, you don’t need to do a thing. Here’s… READ MORE
As a Fabric administrator, you are always looking for ways to secure your data and analytics workflows in the cloud. That’s why I’m excited to share with you some of the security features that Fabric offers. Fabric was designed from the outset to protect sensitive assets. It’s built on Azure, which is Microsoft’s public cloud… READ MORE
Spark configurations are critical in controlling the behavior of your data processing tasks. These configurations influence various aspects of Spark’s performance, from memory management to execution behavior. Typically, these settings are adjusted at the session level, meaning they apply only to the specific Spark session in which they are set. This granularity allows for fine-tuning of… READ MORE
Introduction For a long time, Git has been at the center of IT development. While there are a few patterns on how to use Git, the main idea remains the same. There is a collaboration branch, often called ‘main,’ where developers work from by branching out. At some point, the work in the branch-out branch… READ MORE
Imagine soaring high above the city, the landscape stretching out below, each building, each road, each individual vehicle going about their day. That is the view from a helicopter — a perspective that allows you to see everything at once, yet with the ability to focus on specific details. This is an apt analogy for Microsoft… READ MORE
Microsoft Fabric is a cloud-based data platform that provides a range of services for data engineering, data science, and business intelligence. It is an extension of Azure Synapse Analytics that integrates all analytics workloads from the data engineer to the business knowledge worker. Fabric brings together Power BI, Data Factory, and the Data Lake, on… READ MORE
Microsoft Fabric is a comprehensive analytics solution designed for enterprise customers and is a new unified data analytics platform from Microsoft that has brought together a range of data technologies, some of which are already available in the Azure universe. It encompasses various aspects such as data movement, data science, real-time analytics, and business intelligence.… READ MORE
As I mentioned in my Build Announcement Summary, Microsoft Fabric has been announced! In short, Fabric covers the complete spectrum of services including data movement, data lake, data engineering, data integration and data science, real time analytics, and business intelligence. It promises to offer end to end analytics from the data lake to the business user, covering the… READ MORE
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