Power BI offers a new type of connection to Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse or Warehouse, called Direct Lake. The Direct Lake connection acts like DirectQuery and won’t need the data to be refreshed. However, the Power BI semantic model has refresh settings that can be turned on or off. In this article and video, you will Read more about REFRAME in Power BI Direct Lake[…]
In the previous article and video, I explained the important factors in having a successful data analytics team. One of those aspects is the team, the people, and their roles. In this article and video, I will explain the roles involved in the data analytics project and the types of tasks and requirements for each Read more about Roles in a Data Analytics Team[…]
Recently, I did a presentation at a conference, and the topic was non-technical, unlike many other presentations that I do. I thought it would be helpful for you all to know about it, as I spent some time and gathered some information about it combined with the experiences I had with some of my customers. Read more about Building a Data Analytics Team in this golden era of technology[…]
There are a lot of similar terminologies and words when working with Fabric. We have Data Lake, Delta Lake, OneLake, and Lakehouse, and the list continues. I found it confusing for some to understand the differences between them. Although explaining these terms and their differences requires many different blog articles, having one place for a Read more about Microsoft Fabric Glossary[…]
In the previous article, I explained SCD (Slowly Changing Dimension) and its different types. In this article, I’ll show you how to implement SCD Type 2 (one of the most common types) using Microsoft Fabric and Power BI. This article includes using Lakehouse, Dataflow, Warehouse, Data Pipeline, SQL Stored Procedures, Power BI Semantic model, and Read more about SCD Type 2 in Microsoft Fabric and Power BI[…]
If you want to use Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, or any other data analytics tools, one of the key concepts to understand when working with a data warehouse system is the SCD (Slowly Changing Dimension). I will do this in a series of at least two articles. The first one (this one) will be on Read more about SCD: Slowly Changing Dimension, an Ultimate Guide[…]
Microsoft Copilot is utilized in different technologies in Microsoft; in Microsoft Fabric, one of the places that you can use Copilot is in the Data Warehousing workload, which will guide you through your SQL commands and enhance your SQL coding experience. I’ll show you how the Copilot in the Data Warehouse works in this article Read more about Copilot in Fabric Data Warehouse: Magic in T-SQL[…]
Microsoft Fabric runs some workloads under the Spark engine, but what is it really? In this article, I’ll take you through the question of what Spark is, What benefits it has, how it is associated with Fabric, what configurations you have, and other things you need to know about it. Video What is Spark? Apache Read more about What is Spark in Microsoft Fabric?[…]
The Lakehouse or Warehouse comes with a default Power BI Sematic model, which can be used for reporting and analytics. However, you can also build and use a customized semantic model. There are significant differences when using the semantic model in real-world analytics projects. In this article, I’ll explain the difference between these two, which Read more about Power BI Default Semantic Model or Custom; A Guide for Using in Fabric Environment[…]
Time travel is now available in Fabric Warehouse, which was previously only possible in Lakehouse. This means that you can all be Dr. Strange and use your time stone to travel through time and look at a snapshot of the data at that point in time. It is an amazing feature, and it is so Read more about Time Travel in Fabric Warehouse: Query Snapshots of the Data at Any Point in Time[…]