Control OneLake with Storage Explorer – Data Engineering with Fabric
In this new article, we examine how to work with OneLake storage.
2024-06-26
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Microsoft Fabric (Azure Synapse, Data Engineering, etc.)
Stairway to Synapse Analytics
This stairway series is designed to teach you about the Azure Synapse Analytics cloud service.
2025-06-06 (first published: 2024-06-19)
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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
1,231 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
1,813 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
4,981 reads
Full vs. Incremental Loads – Data Engineering with Fabric
Learn how to perform full and incremental loads in Fabric with a little SparkSQL.
2024-04-17
6,557 reads
Use Fabric Data Factory to Load Data From a CSV File in Azure Blob Storage to Azure SQL DB
Andy Leonard discusses and demonstrates using Fabric Data Factory to load a CSV file stored in Azure Blob Storage to Azure SQL DB.
2024-04-03
Database Mirroring is Back in Azure SQL Database
Database Mirroring comes back to SQL, at least to Azure SQL Database with Fabric as the destination. Read a few of Steve's thoughts on this feature.
2024-03-30
470 reads
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Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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