Microsoft Fabric AI Skill
Are you ready to have conversations with your data? Announced in public preview within Microsoft Fabric is AI Skill, a new capability in Fabric that allows you to build...
2024-09-11 (first published: 2024-08-26)
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James Serra's Blog
Microsoft Fabric reference architecture
Microsoft Fabric uses a data lakehouse architecture, which means it does not use a relational data warehouse (with its relational engine and relational storage) and instead uses only a...
2024-09-04 (first published: 2024-08-12)
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Classifications and sensitivity labels in Microsoft Purview
I see a lot of confusion on how classifications and sensitivity labels work in Microsoft Purview. This blog will help to clear that up, but I first must address...
2024-08-07 (first published: 2024-07-24)
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Copilot in Microsoft Fabric
Microsoft Copilot is an app that uses AI to help you find information, create content, and get things done faster (see What Is Copilot? Microsoft’s AI Assistant Explained). Copilot is...
2024-07-17 (first published: 2024-07-10)
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Transform yourself into an Invaluable Data Leader in just 6 weeks
I’ve collaborated with two industry experts to design a transformative course for data leaders: “The Technical and Strategic Data Leader.” This six-week intensive learning journey is crafted to elevate...
2024-06-24
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Introduction to OpenAI and LLMs – Part 2
My previous blog post on this topic was Introduction to OpenAI and LLMs, the “what” part (what is OpenAI and LLM), and this blog post will talk about the...
2025-01-03 (first published: 2024-06-05)
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Microsoft Build event announcements on Fabric
There were a number of Microsoft Fabric announcements at Microsoft Build yesterday that I wanted to blog about. Everything announced at Build can be found in the Microsoft Build 2024 Book of...
2024-06-12 (first published: 2024-05-22)
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Microsoft Fabric shortcuts
I talked about Microsoft Fabric shortcuts in my blog post Microsoft Fabric – the great unifier (where I have updated the picture with the newest supported sources) and wanted...
2024-05-15 (first published: 2024-05-01)
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Microsoft Purview new data governance features
Starting last week is a rollout of the public preview of a new and fully reimagined Microsoft Purview data governance solution. Data governance has become so much more important...
2024-04-29 (first published: 2024-04-17)
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Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference
(Shameless plug: The price of my book “Deciphering Data Architectures: Choosing Between a Modern Data Warehouse, Data Fabric, Data Lakehouse, and Data Mesh” has dropped on Amazon to its...
2024-04-08 (first published: 2024-03-28)
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Blogs
Measuring What Matters: Operationalizing Data Trust for CDOs
By Chris Yates
Trust is the currency of the data economy. Without it, even the most advanced...
A Small LLM Fail
By Steve Jones
Another test with Copilot in SSMS (v22 P3) that didn’t go so well. This...
SQL Server Versions: Out With the Old, In With the Supported
By Kevin3NF
If your production SQL Servers are still running 2016 (or older) you’re basically banking...
Forums
Create an HTML Report on the Status of SQL Server Agent Jobs
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Create an HTML Report on...
Can Flyway work with GitHub Self-Hosted Runners?
I work on the CI/CD team. We're considering different applications for helping us with...
SSIS packages failing with a status "ended unexpectedly" (SSL/TLS timeout ?)
We have an issue where SSIS packages are failing with a status of "ended...
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