Introducing Microsoft Fabric
This week at Microsoft Build, we announced the future. With an introduction like that, I should probably remind everyone that this is my personal blog, my personal perspective, and my personal...
View ArticleFabric CAT sessions at Data Ceili
On Friday June 9th, Data Ceili – Ireland’s biggest Microsoft data platform event – returns to Trinity College in Dublin! You already know that I’ll be there with MVP Melissa Coates on June 8th to...
View ArticleMicrosoft Fabric and OneLake: Data governance and enterprise adoption
The data internet this week is awash with news and information about Microsoft Fabric. My Introducing Microsoft Fabric post on Tuesday got just under ten thousand views in the first 24 hours, which I...
View ArticleManaging Power BI tenant settings just got easier in Microsoft Fabric
If you’ve read the Power BI adoption roadmap or attended any of the full-day training sessions I’ve been doing with MVP Melissa Coates[1], you know how important it is to manage settings in your Power...
View ArticleWhere does Power BI end and Microsoft Fabric begin?
Over the holiday weekend I joined Adam Saxton for a Fabric-focused Guy in a Cube live stream. It was a ton of fun, as these streams always are, and we ended up going for 90 minutes instead of the...
View ArticleWhy your governance team should be excited about Microsoft Fabric
Microsoft Fabric has only been in preview for a week, and I’ve already written one post that covers data governance – do we really need another one already? I think we do. Over the weekend I got this...
View ArticleMicrosoft Fabric: Falling in love with SQL all over again
There’s nothing new in this blog post except for joy. Every Microsoft data platform blogger[1] has been posting about Microsoft Fabric, including how the OneLake SaaS data lake stores data in a common...
View ArticleCheck out the Microsoft Fabric roadmap!
Last week Microsoft published the public product roadmap, announcing it at the Microsoft Power Platform Conference in Las Vegas. If you haven’t looked at it already, you should check it out now at...
View ArticleData Culture: Self-service BI as a two-edged sword
There’s a new data culture video! After I finished my 2020 video and blog series on building a data culture, I figured I would revisit this topic at some point. I didn’t expect it to take quite so...
View ArticleData Culture: Becoming a data fencing master
We’re back with another data culture post and video with swords, and this time we’re bringing out the big blade. This time we’re bringing out the montante. I didn’t knock anything over with this six...
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