Category: Delta Lake

What Is Microsoft Fabric? My Point of View

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Bringing the Data Platform Workspace and the Power Platform workspace Together Over the last 18 months or so I've been watching and supporting the development of Microsoft's new Software as a Service (SaaS) offering that has now been named at MSBuild 2023 as Microsoft Fabric. As a Microsoft MVP I've be aware of this offering … Continue reading What Is Microsoft Fabric? My Point of View →

Building a Data Mesh Architecture in Azure – Part 15 – Frequently Asked Questions

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Addressing Hype, Problems Faced & Common Misconceptions As I continue my day job supporting customers in their journey towards a true data mesh architecture, I've started to see a series of common questions. Or a set of common problems that I get asked. Frequently asked questions (FAQ's) if you like 🙂 For clarity, I am … Continue reading Building a Data Mesh Architecture in Azure – Part 15 – Frequently Asked Questions →

An Introduction to Delta Lakes and Delta Lake-Houses

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Recording from the Hybrid Virtual Group MeetUp Abstract Once upon a time, there was a data warehouse and it lived happily as a set of tables within our relational database management system (RDMS) called Microsoft SQL Server. The data warehouse had three children known as extract, transform, and load. One day a blue/azure coloured cloud … Continue reading An Introduction to Delta Lakes and Delta Lake-Houses →