Category: Power BI & Fabric

A new Microsoft Learn challenge started today! It’s very similar to the previous one I posted about, but this time once you complete it, you get a FREE exam voucher. The previous challenge resulted in a 50% off voucher which is good, but free is better. 😄 Challenge Microsoft Learnpspier (Full URL: https://learn.microsoft.com/learn/challenges?id=b696c18d-7201-4aff-9c7d-d33014d93b25&WT.mc_id=DX-MVP-5002186) If you…

This post is the last in the series specifically about the modules in this Cloud Skills challenge. Yay! The deadline to complete the challenge is February 22, 2024, so I got there with 2 days to spare! This topic is also not covered on the exam, hence it is not being included in the Learn…

This post is about module 9 of the Cloud Challenge series. Like the previous post in this series, it is a topic not covered in the DP-600 exam based on the study guide I read at least. After this, there will be one more post to complete the modules in the challenge, just before the…

This post is about module 8 of the Cloud Challenge series. It’s the first of my series where there was no Learn Live video session for it. It is not a topic that is listed as covered by the DP-600 exam, although it is part of Microsoft Fabric and part of the skills challenge collection.…

This post is the last of the 9 that had a “Learn Together” live video session. The posts after this will cover the modules I missed, numbers 8, 9, and 13 to round out the rest of the challenge. The deadline for the challenge is coming up quickly (ends Feb 22, 2024), and as of…

This post is about module 11 in the Cloud Skills challenge. Previous posts in this series: Part 1 (Introduction, Lakehouses) Part 2 (Apache Spark) Part 3 (Delta Lake tables) Part 4 (Using Data Factory pipelines) Part 5 (Ingesting data with Dataflows Gen2) Part 6 (Getting started with data warehouses) Part 7 (Administration of Microsoft Fabric)…

This post covers module 10 in the Cloud Skills challenge. This is where the video series and the challenge modules start to diverge a bit. Modules 8, 9 and 13 were not covered in the Learn Together video series, so I will be covering those last. Modules 10, 11 & 12 were covered in a…

This post is about module 7 in the Cloud Skills challenge. Previous posts in this series: Part 1 (Introduction, Lakehouses) Part 2 (Apache Spark) Part 3 (Delta Lake tables) Part 4 (Using Data Factory pipelines) Part 5 (Ingesting data with Dataflows Gen2) Microsoft Learn Module Get started with data warehouses in Microsoft Fabric This module…

This post is about module 6 in the Cloud Skills challenge. Previous posts in this series: Part 1 (Introduction, Lakehouses) Part 2 (Apache Spark) Part 3 (Delta Lake tables) Part 4 (Using Data Factory pipelines) Microsoft Learn Module Ingest Data with Dataflows Gen2 in Microsoft Fabric This module is about Dataflows Gen2, a cloud-based ETL…

This post is about module 4 in the Cloud Skills challenge. Previous posts in the series: Part 1 (Introduction, Lakehouses) Part 2 (Apache Spark) Part 3 (Delta Lake tables) Microsoft Learn Module Use Data Factory Pipelines in Microsoft Fabric This module is about Data pipelines, which will be familiar to anyone who uses Azure Data…

This post is about module 3 in the Cloud Skills challenge. Previous posts in the series Part 1 (Introduction, Lakehouses) Part 2 (Apache Spark) Microsoft Learn Module 3 Working with Delta Lake tables in Microsoft Fabric This module is about the Delta Lake storage format in lakehouses, creating and working with delta tables in Spark.…

In this post, I am covering module 3 of the Microsoft Learn challenge. Previous posts in the series Part 1 (Introduction, Lakehouses) Microsoft Learn Module 2 Use Apache Spark in Microsoft Fabric This module shows how to configure and use Apache Spark for data processing and analytics in Microsoft Fabric. Spark is frequently used in…

As I wrote in my introductory post a couple of days ago (which can be found here), this is the start of a series following my journey through the Microsoft Learn cloud skills challenge “Fabric Analytics Engineer“. I’m coming from a Power BI perspective, so the majority of Microsoft Fabric components I have not been…

If you happen to follow me on LinkedIn, you may have seen some of my posts recently about the “Learn Together” Microsoft Fabric live training series. As I watched each of the 9 sessions over the past 3 weeks, I would post a note about each with a link. Now I’m going to write a…

Today’s tip I found completely by accident. In the Open Report window, I had a long list of previous Power BI reports in my “recently used” list, many of which I had long ago deleted or moved. I wanted to clear the list and could not find a way to do that on that screen.…

Here are two tips that I use repeatedly when building reports in Power BI. “Repeatedly” is a bit of a stretch as I’m still a newbie with Power BI but this was remarkably hard to find so I’m blogging for my future self, when I forget. 😄 For Tip #1, I love being able to…