Last week, I had a situation in which a client wanted to purchase a reserved instance Fabric capacity. Me being me, I assumed it would be super straight forward to purchase through Azure. However, at some point I was lost in the process where the official documentation confused even more. In the end, I figured …
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Recently, I wrote a blog about the new branch-out feature in Git connected Fabric and Power BI workspaces. In this blog, I will continue the topic of Git integration by discussing various setups you could consider in your Git integration, deployment and release strategies as part of your continuous integration and continuous delivery setup. Will …
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Recently, I architected a solution for a client for their Microsoft Fabric data platform. The client works with Dynamics Finance & Operations as one of their main ERP system. Fabric offers easy ways to bring data from various standard Microsoft services into the platform, however it is not always as easy as it looks like. …
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I've heard the question pretty often from customers: "You told me to use incremental refresh, but how can I regularly run a full load or refresh onder partitions?" Well, there are perfect ways to do this using Tabular Editor or SQL Server Management Studio. But this often includes manual work to trigger the processing. Today, …
Recently, Microsoft released a new activity type to trigger Power BI Semantic Model refreshes. A great step forward to have a native pipeline activity and no longer need to setup complex steps with APIs and authentication manually. Or is there still a case? In this blog I will elaborate on what this new Pipeline activity …
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This morning, I was looking for a specific tenant setting in the Fabric admin portal. While scrolling through a few of the tenant settings, I came across a specific one, which I like to elaborate on a bit more in detail, given I recently also had some questions around this topic from customers. What happens …
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