Data Mozart Journal #3
Check what's latest in the wonderful world of data!
2023/12/01
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Microsoft Fabric Pricing Model – Everything you need to know!
Now that we know all the pricing details for Microsoft Fabric, let's examine what are our options to save some money in the wallet
Bursting and Smoothing - Yin and Yang of the Fabric Capacity!
Learn about two key concepts that balance your Fabric capacity workload, and how to save money along the way!
New Microsoft Certification announced - DP-600 Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate
At Microsoft Ignite, we learned about the brand new exam (and certificate) around Microsoft Fabric - Implementing Analytics Solutions Using Microsoft Fabric (beta). The exam should be in beta in January 2024, but I already did a short video, sharing my initial thoughts about the new exam and how it compares to the existing DP-500 (Azure Enterprise Data Analyst) exam
Community Corner
Curated content created by the data community
Another masterpiece by Kurt Buhler, this time explaining Semantic models in detail! This should be a mandatory read for every newly onboarded member of your data teams, let alone aspiring #powerbi developers. Brilliant article!
Sandeep Pawar is rocking with his blogs on Fabric! This time, in his company’s blog, Sandeep shares a checklist for migrating Direct Lake semantic models for Power BI
Shabnam Watson has a great blog post on different access levels for Microsoft Fabric, including some sample scenarios
John White examines what counts and what doesn’t count as “free” storage in Microsoft Fabric. Simple and easy to understand!
Eugene Meidinger started a very cool series of articles called: Fabric project ride-along. This is a wonderful opportunity to get to grasp Microsoft Fabric from the trenches and Eugene is always a great teacher
Chris Webb wrote another great article, this time to help us understand the eager vs lazy evaluation of DAX variables in IF and SWITCH statements
Just Blindbaek demystifies Data Lakehouse in Microsoft Fabric and examines scenarios for using PySpark in Fabric
Microsoft Hall
Latest updates from the official Microsoft Blog
DAX Query view is one of the biggest enhancements in Power BI Desktop in recent years. Zoe Douglas from Microsoft dives deep into explaining all the details about this latest feature
Among many fantastic features announced at Ignite, this one went slightly under the radar. But, trust me, the Explore feature will make our lives much easier going forward
New button slicer is really amazing. Check Miguel Myers blog to understand all the potential benefits
Semantic Link is one of the coolest features in Microsoft Fabric. In this article, you can find out how to leverage this feature together with OneLake integrated Semantic Models
Another one on Semantic Link! Semantic Link may help you with data validation, by using a very popular Python library called Great Expectations