Manage OneLake Storage With PowerShell - Data Engineering with Fabric
Learn how to manage files and folders in Microsoft Fabric with PowerShell.
2024-07-10
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Microsoft Fabric (Azure Synapse, Data Engineering, etc.)
Choosing Between the Lakehouse and Warehouse in Microsoft Fabric
Microsoft Fabric is a new centralized, AI-powered cloud data platform hosted by Microsoft. It combines several services of the existing Azure Data Platform – such as Azure Data Factory – with Power BI, while also introducing new services.
2024-07-05
Level 1 of the Stairway to Synapse Analytics - Create a Synapse Workspace
In this first level of the Stairway to Synapse Analytics, we learn how to set up a new workspace and add data files.
2024-10-24 (first published: 2024-07-03)
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Control OneLake with Storage Explorer – Data Engineering with Fabric
In this new article, we examine how to work with OneLake storage.
2024-06-26
1,020 reads
Stairway to Synapse Analytics
This stairway series is designed to teach you about the Azure Synapse Analytics cloud service.
2024-10-24 (first published: 2024-06-19)
206 reads
How to Set Up Microsoft Fabric Database Mirroring for Azure Cosmos DB
This article shows how to configure database mirroring from CosmosDB to Microsoft Fabric.
2024-06-10
905 reads
How to Build Metadata Driven Pipelines in Microsoft Fabric
Over the past years, “traditional” ETL development has morphed into data engineering, which has a more disciplined software engineering approach. One of the benefits of having a more code-based approach in data pipelines is that it has become easier to build metadata driven pipelines.
2024-05-24
Empowering Lakehouse Users – Data Engineering with Fabric
Learn how to use the OneLake Explorer and Data Wrangler extension in VS Code to empower users to work with data in Microsoft Fabric.
2024-05-22
1,570 reads
Read Data Stored in a Lake Database using Azure Synapse Analytics
In this article, we look at how to read data stored in a lake database using Azure Synapse Analytics to help reduce overall Azure costs.
2024-05-13
Metadata Driven Pipelines – Data Engineering with Fabric
This article explains metadata driven pipelines and shows an example in Microsoft Fabric.
2024-05-01
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Blogs
PASS Data Community Summit 2024 Day 3 Keynote
By Steve Jones
It’s been an amazing week here, as well as a long week. I’m tired,...
A New Word: Skidding
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skidding – v. intr. the practice of making offhand comments that sound sarcastic but...
PASS Summit – Thursday
By Brian Kelley
Let’s start with the keynote. The biggest take away was how having to support...
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Backing up the Database Encryption Key
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USE Sales; GO CREATE DATABASE ENCRYPTION KEY WITH ALGORITHM = AES_256 ENCRYPTION BY SERVER CERTIFICATE MyServerCert; GOThis works, but I want to prepare for the future and potential issues. How do I back up my DEK? See possible answers