Did I disappoint you? Or leave a bad taste in your mouth? You act like you never had love And you want me to go without U2 In previous posts, I shared my initial impression of the recently announced Microsoft Fabric and its main engines. Now that we have the Fabric licensing and pricing, I'm ready to wrap up my review with a few parting…
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In retrospect, I'd say I owe 50% of my BI career to Analysis Services and its flavors: Multidimensional, Tabular, and later Power BI. This is why I closely follow how this technology evolves. Fast forwarding to Fabric, there are no dramatic changes. Unlike the other two Fabric Engines (Lakehouse and Warehouse), Power BI datasets haven't embraced the delta lake file format to store its data…
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Is it getting better? Or do you feel the same? Will it make it easier on you now? You got someone to blame U2 Likely influenced by the Gartner's Fabric vision, Microsoft Fabric is eclipsing all things Power BI nowadays to the extent of replacing the strong Power BI brand and logo with Fabric's. Now that the red star Synapse has imploded into a black…
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Oops, I did it again I played with your heart Got lost in the game… Britney Spears In previous posts, I shared my thoughts about Fabric OneLake, Lakehouse, and Data Warehouse. They are of course useless if there is no way to get data in and out of Fabric. Data integration and data quality is usually the most difficult part of implementing a BI solution,…
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Atlanta BI fans, please join us for the next meeting on Tuesday, July 11th, at 6:30 PM ET. Stacey Jones (Cross Solution Architect at Microsoft) will join us in person to present OpenAI and Copilot. Your humble correspondent will demo the newly released PBI Desktop project format. For more details and sign up, visit our group page. PLEASE NOTE A CHANGE TO OUR MEETING POLICY.…
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"Patience my tinsel angel, patience my perfumed child One day they'll really love you, you'll charm them with that smile But for now it's just another Chelsea [TL: BI] Monday" Marrillion Continuing our Power BI Fabric journey, let's look at another of its engines that I personally care about – Fabric Warehouse (aka as Synapse Data Warehouse). Most of my real-life projects require integrating data…
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