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… (continue >)

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… (continue >)

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… (continue >)

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.… (continue >)

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… (continue >)

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)… (continue >)

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… (continue >)

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… (continue >)

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… (continue >)

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… (continue >)

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.… (continue >)

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… (continue >)

Part 1 of the series covers the Microsoft Learn Cloud Skills challenge, modules 1 and 2: Introduction to Fabric, and Lakehouses. (continue >)

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… (continue >)