Entries by Justin Cunningham
Operating Materialized Lake Views in Microsoft Fabric
This is the last post in a three-part series exploring the mechanics of Materialized Lake Views (MLVs). The goal is to help you understand how they work and whether they make sense for your environment. What they are, when they help, and when they fall short.
Designing with Materialized Lake Views in Microsoft Fabric
This is the second post in a three-part series exploring the mechanics of Materialized Lake Views. The goal is to help you understand how they work and whether they make sense for your environment. What they are, when they help, and when they fall short.
Materialized Lake Views in Microsoft Fabric
This is the first post in a three-part series exploring the mechanics of Materialized Lake Views. The goal is to help you understand how they work and whether they make sense for your environment. What they are, when they help, and when they fall short.
Microsoft Power BI to Microsoft Fabric: Are You Ready for the Transition?
In 2023, Microsoft announced its new platform, Microsoft Fabric, an innovative product that combined Microsoft Power BI, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Factory, Fabric SQL Databases, and Real-Time Intelligence into one platform. Over 21,000 companies use Microsoft Fabric, and the success stories paint a promising future. If your team hasn’t switched to Fabric yet, now […]
Fabric Lakehouse Schemas: Your Data’s New Best Friend
In this post, we will cover a new feature in preview for Microsoft Fabric: Lakehouse Schemas. If your Lakehouse is drowning in a sea of unorganized data, this might just be the lifeline you’ve been looking for. The Data Chaos Conundrum We’ve all been there. You’re knee-deep in a project, desperately searching for that one […]
Microsoft Build 2024: Key Updates for Data Pros
“Every business workflow in every enterprise will be engineered with GenAI at its core” -ServiceNow’s Bill McDermott Microsoft Build 2024 focused on transformative advancements in AI, cloud computing, and developer tools. This year’s event showcased Microsoft’s commitment to pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. AI and Copilots were the overwhelming theme. Even though AI has […]
Data Engineering with Notebooks in Seven Minutes
Checkout this quick video to see how you can start to load and transform your data with notebooks. Data Engineering with Microsoft Fabric becomes easier once you understand how to leverage notebooks to your advantage. If you are in Austin Texas on March 8 & 9, 2024 don’t miss SQL Saturday Ausin where you can […]
Microsoft Fabric Overview in Five Minutes
In five minutes, Justin gives you a Microsoft Fabric overview to help you ingest, process, store, monitor, and govern your data with Microsoft’s new analytics tool. He will discuss user personas like Data Engineering and Data Science within Microsoft Fabric and how the personas will use tools like Data Activator, Power BI, Data Factory, Real-Time […]