I loaded some built-in sample data from Wide World Importers into a Fabric warehouse. You get an option to load sample data when you create a new pipeline in Fabric. It says the data is 352MB in size, but after loading the data I was curious about how many rows were actually in that sample da
Today I was having a nice discussion with some colleagues about Fabric and pricing/licensing came up. I mentioned an F2 is only around €250 a month, but a colleague said "no no, it's over €300". A bit confused, I pulled up the sizing table of my Fabric capacity in Azure, which looks like this
I recently purchased and read the book Deciphering Data Architectures - Choosing Between a Modern Data Warehouse, Data Fabric, Data Lakehouse, and Data Mesh by James Serra. James - who works for Microsoft since quite some time now - has an interesting blog on data architecture and data warehousing,
A while ago I had a little blog post series about cool stuff in Snowflake. I’m doing a similar series now, but this time for Microsoft Fabric. I’m not going to cover the basics of Fabric, hundreds of bloggers have already done that. I’m going to cover little bits & pieces that I find interesting
I have the pleasure to announce I'll be presenting at two conferences this spring. The first one is at dataMinds Saturday 2024 (back in-person!): Yes, it's a long abstract :) You can register for this free event here. The other session is at Techorama Belgium 2024 where I'll present about
