Data Mozart Journal #2
Check what's latest in the wonderful world of data!
2023/11/16
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Working with tables in Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse – Everything you need to know!
Working with tables in the Microsoft Fabric lakehouse may look like a straightforward task - however, there are many nuances to be aware of before you decide to go one way or another
Black Friday Promo - Subscribe to the Data Mozart Orchestra for $1!
Black Friday is coming, so I prepared a special promotion - subscribe and get instant access to 13 mini-courses for as little as $1*! Additionally, you can gift someone a course and get one yourself for FREE!
Microsoft Fabric is Generally Available!
This is definitely one of the biggest announcements this year! Microsoft Fabric was first announced in May at Microsoft Build, and now at Microsoft Ignite, it has officially entered the GA stage.
I am very much looking forward to seeing how it develops over time and what new features will be coming. You can find more details about Microsoft Fabric GA in the Microsoft Hall area below.
Community Corner
Curated content created by the data community
Chris Webb explains how to leverage DMVs to explore Run-Length-Encoding in Power BI. I’m always impressed with Cris’s knowledge about Power BI/Tabular internals
Sandeep Pawar is rocking with his blogs on Fabric! This time, he explains how to take advantage of the Semantic Link feature to identify partition modes of the Power BI semantic model
Marthe Moengen talks about the data mesh, key benefits, and potential challenges of this “buzz” concept in the data world
I’m not a data visualization “aficionado”, but I enjoyed reading the article from my friend Tom Martens. Tom explains how to use Deneb to add the visual hints of a pie chart to a stacked bar chart
Mimoune Djouallah always has super interesting blog posts with various performance tests, comparisons, etc. This time, he shows how bursting works in Microsoft Fabric DWH
Microsoft Hall
Latest updates from the official Microsoft Blog
Microsoft Fabric is now GA, so you may want to go and check the pricing options and models
Copilot is now in public preview for Microsoft Fabric and that was one of the biggest announcements from Ignite
One of the features announced that caught my eye is definitely mirroring. I’m really looking forward to giving it a try
If you’re a Synapse “shop”, you’d definitely want to read the blog which sheds more light on the plans for the existing Synapse users
Power BI November update is also full of entertaining features! My favorite is the new DAX view, but there are many more to be explored