Today I’m introducing a new side project that I’ve been working on: the Fabric Data Warehouse CLI and MCP Server . This tool is designed to simplify the management and interaction with Microsoft Fabri...

Microsoft Fabric has been out for a couple of years now. Have you ever wondered what is under the hood? There are lots of interesting things hiding in plain sight. Today, let’s take a look at Project ...

Microsoft Fabric has been out for a couple of years now, have you ever wondered what is under the hood? There are lots of interesting things hiding in plain sight. Today, let’s take a look at Fabric’s...

Do you often have to draw up diagrams of data flows or data architectures and would you like to use Microsoft Fabric icons in your diagrams? Then this post is for you! I always found it hard to find t...

Google has released a feature that allows Gemini to access third-party apps, such as WhatsApp, even if you've turned off Gemini Apps Activity. Here's how to prevent that from happening.

My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.

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Hyrum's law, Conway’s law, Zawinski's law, and 10 others.

Today I have a quick tip for you. I thought that I could find the list of preinstalled Python packages somewhere on Microsoft Learn , but either Microsoft stopped publishing this, or I couldn’t find i...

My role at Google was eliminated.

In this post I’ll go over all the details on acquiring access tokens to authenticate to any Microsoft SQL engine, including Azure SQL, Azure Synapse and Microsoft Fabric. We’ll explore users, service ...

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Simplifying the problem to an earlier problem.

We want a Mac Mini for the iPhone lineup.

O2 has today unveiled the newest member of its fraud prevention team, 'Daisy'. As ‘Head of Scammer Relations’, this state-of-the-art AI Granny's mission is to talk with fraudsters and waste as much of...

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I took the new DP-700 exam, released just hours ago in beta, and I’m here to share my experience along with some tips to help you prepare.

If you’re looking to build a simple, serverless data stack, then you might have considered the amazing combo of dbt Cloud with Neon. Neon is a fully managed cloud offering with serverless PostgreSQL ...

There are 2 kinds of companies currently active in the Microsoft data space: those who are migrating to Microsoft Fabric, and those who will soon be planning their migration to Microsoft Fabric. 😅 ...

It’s a question I see popping up every now and then. Is Microsoft Fabric just a rebranding of existing Azure services like Synapse, Data Factory, Event Hub, Stream Analytics, etc.? Is it something m...

Last week I attended Big Data London. Both days were filled with interesting sessions, mostly focussing on one of the vendors also exhibiting at the conference. There are 2 things I am taking away fro...

Welcome to the fifth part of a 5-part series on an end-to-end use case for Microsoft Fabric. This post will focus on the analytics engineering part of the use case. In this series, we will explore how...

Welcome to the fourth part of a 5-part series on an end-to-end use case for Microsoft Fabric. This post will focus on the analytics engineering part of the use case. In this series, we will explore ho...

Welcome to the third part of a 5-part series on an end-to-end use case for Microsoft Fabric. This post will focus on the data engineering part of the use case. In this series, we will explore how to u...