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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Microsoft Fabric (Azure Synapse, Data Engineering, etc.)
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
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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
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Managing Files and Folders with Python – Data Engineering with Fabric
In this article, learn how you can manage files and folders for both full and incremental loading situations.
2024-03-27
3,923 reads
What is Eventstream in Microsoft Fabric? - Part 1
Learn about Eventstream in Microsoft Fabric to ingest, transform, and route real-time data to certain destinations in a low-to-no-code SaaS fashion.
2024-03-27
Tinkering with Fabric Data Factory Framework Functionality
I recently asked myself, “Self, is it possible to apply framework functionality to Fabric Data Factory?” I decided to investigate.
2024-03-25
Managed Vs Unmanaged Tables – Data Engineering with Fabric
Learn how to get started with Microsoft Fabric along with the differences between managed and unmanaged tables.
2024-03-20
5,044 reads
Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches in Microsoft Fabric
Nikola Ilic, best known as Data Mozart, published a great article and video about how to make semantic model data available in Microsoft Fabric. This allows the data to be used in lakehouses or data warehouses. One major question that arises is, “should we use a top-down or bottom-up (or both) approach in Microsoft Fabric?
2024-03-06
Announcing the first Microsoft Fabric Community Conference!
Read a message from Bob Ward about the first Microsoft Fabric conference taking place in Las Vegas this March.
2024-02-05
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Blogs
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SQL Server 2025 Server-level Roles
In SQL Server 2022+, what does the ##MS_DatabaseConnector## role allow?
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