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Paul Andrew @mrpaulandrew.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Hype vs reality, the constant struggle! Can you help please? We want to hear from you as part of a survey myself & the @cloudformations.bsky.social team are trying to capture the collective wisdom of this community. Only 5mins, prizes available too! Thanks for your support. 😊 lnkd.in/eQniGh66

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Paul Andrew @mrpaulandrew.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Webinar Alert: I'll be hosting and presenting next month at a webinar on what we've called 'Fabric in Production - Stories From the Field'. We're built several #MicrosoftFabric solutions now for our customers and keen to share knowledge. www.cloudformations.org/post/getting...

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Getting Microsoft Fabric into Production - Stories from the Field + Q&A

Webinar - Free to attend knowledge sharing.Join Cloud Formations and industry peers for a practical, story-driven session on what it really takes to move Microsoft Fabric analytics solutions into prod...

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Paul Andrew @mrpaulandrew.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Join me in #Nottingham this Wednesday evening for the East Midlands Data #MeetUp. Special guest Matt Collins will be talking about how to 'Fast-Track Your Lakehouse Build with a Metadata Framework' Plus, I have a box of #Microsoft swag to give away!! 😉 www.meetup.com/eastmidlands...

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14th May 25 | East Midlands Data | Nottingham | Speaker - Matt Collins, Wed, May 14, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup

**___________________________________________________________________________________** **MeetUp Agenda** 18:00 - Arrive. Networking 18:30 - Guest Speaker Talk 19:30 - Pi

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Paul Andrew @mrpaulandrew.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Thanks #Microsoft @microsoft.com for moving the Edge browser profile switching from the top left to the top right! Why?? ~5 years of muscle memory! Sigh 🤬

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Paul Andrew @mrpaulandrew.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

So, just killed a customers Fabric F64 capacity with a nested pipeline ForEach, only 100 concurrent copy activities. #MicrosoftFabric sigh!

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Paul Andrew @mrpaulandrew.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Happy chocolate egg weekend friends! 🙂 🍫🍫🍫😬🤢

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Paul Andrew @mrpaulandrew.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

The journey to the #MVPSummit begins… arriving in Seattle around 2am tomorrow morning. Yay! 😴 🚗🚄🚇🛫🛬🚕

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Paul Andrew @mrpaulandrew.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Getting ready for the #DataWeekender 🙂 See you at 10:20am GMT www.dataweekender.com/schedule

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DataWeekender @dataweekender.com · 22/02/2025

Our third Fabric session at DataWeekender 7.0 is @mrpaulandrew.bsky.social presenting Fast-Track Your Lakehouse Build with a Metadata Framework at 10:20am UTC on Sat 1st March. Register: bit.ly/4b9SsnB. View the schedule: bit.ly/46TCJ9i. #MicrosoftFabric

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Paul Andrew @mrpaulandrew.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Blogged: Dynamically Getting a #MicrosoftFabric Item ID - Problem & Solution (Hack!) Not sure this should be this difficult. But I lost a day to messing about with the Fabric API so wanted to make sure you don't fall into the same rabbit holes! 😘 www.cloudformations.org/post/dynamic...

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Dynamically Getting a Microsoft Fabric Item ID

Dynamically getting a Microsoft Fabric item ID at runtime hitting the Fabric API using an Azure Data Factory pipeline

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Fabric February @fabricfebruary.com · 07/02/2025

Having a fantastic time with the fabulous @mrpaulandrew.bsky.social and @laura-gb.bsky.social in their session: A Data Engineer’s Guide to Platform Governance in Microsoft Fabric—Capacities, Workspaces, Domains, DevOps, and more! 💚 #FabricFebruary #MicrosoftFabric

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Paul Andrew @mrpaulandrew.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Sessions all submitted @sqlbits.bsky.social, hope to see you in soon 😘

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SQLBits @sqlbits.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

🎉 The wait is over! SQLBits 2025 is back at ExCeL London from 18-21 June 2025! 📅 Get ready for 4 days of learning, networking & data expertise with the best in the business. Join THE conference for data pros to grow, connect & share knowledge. We can’t wait to see you! 🙌 #SQLBits2025

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Paul Andrew @mrpaulandrew.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Do love presenting sessions on a cinema screens 🤓 #BigDataEurope

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Paul Andrew @mrpaulandrew.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Having a great time in #Lithuania at the 8th Big Data Europe conference. Precon done, lovely speaker dinner done. 3 days to go 🙂

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Paul Andrew @mrpaulandrew.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Today at @cloudformations.bsky.social HQ I’m wearing the IT Tech hat getting another batch of laptops ready for next weeks new joiners. 🤓 #ExcitingTimes

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Paul Andrew @mrpaulandrew.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

Odd, I’ve had nothing from this platform for nearly 6 months. Then in the last week or so a steady stream of new followers. What’s changed?

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Fabric February @fabricfebruary.com · 29/01/2024

Join Microsoft Data Platform MVP @mrpaulandrew.bsky.social at #FabricFebruary to learn how #MicrosoftFabric can have an impact on your business! 🧑‍💼💼 fabricfebruary.com/schedule/#sz... #MVPBuzz

Paul Andrew is speaking at Fabric February 2024.

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Paul Andrew @mrpaulandrew.bsky.social · 10/01/2024

Kicking off this evenings #EastMidlandData MeetUp with the excellent @oliviervs.bsky.social (flying in specially from #Belgium) to tell us about migrating #SSRS reports to #PowerBI

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Paul Andrew @mrpaulandrew.bsky.social · 19/12/2023

#MicrosoftFabric is NOT #PowerBI v2 just because in your favourites you navigate to powerbi.com Please bookmark: fabric.microsoft.com ...and while you're at it, add: portal.azure.com 😡 rant over 😉😁

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Paul Andrew @mrpaulandrew.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

Ooo... you can now get .consulting domain name suffixes 😀 cloudformations.consulting

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Paul Andrew @mrpaulandrew.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

Thank you to everyone that attended my #MicrosoftFabric session at the #PowerPlatform conference in Prague 🙂👏🏻

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Paul Andrew @mrpaulandrew.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

Defo a few crazy months of events ahead... Dec - #PowerPlatform Prague Jan - Data Saturday #Austria Feb - @fabricfebruary.bsky.social Mar - #MVPSummit #MVPBuzz & #SQLBits Really looking forward to catching up with friends and #SQLFamily 🙂

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Cloud Formations - Data Consulting @cloudformations.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

Cloud Formations are very proud to share Our Vision - where the passion and experience of our founders meets the ambition and culture of the business. www.cloudformations.org/post/our-vis...

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Our Vision

As founders, Dan (Daniel Addy) and I (Paul Andrew) have embarked on this journey with Cloud Formations as a professional services business. Our headline from the point of inception has been and will c...

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Fabric February @fabricfebruary.com · 20/11/2023

Now that #MicrosoftFabric is generally available and we have a bigger venue, we're looking forward to all your awesome #FabricFebruary sessions! 🙌 (Oh, and we removed the limit on the number of sessions you can submit 😎) sessionize.com/fabric-febru...

4 days left until Call for Speakers closes! Have you submitted your session yet?

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Paul Andrew @mrpaulandrew.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

Very happy to have so many people at the third (post COVID) #EastMidlandsData MeetUp. This month in #Nottingham with special guest Ian Pike talking about #MicrosoftFabric

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Paul Andrew @mrpaulandrew.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

Ok! I'm going to do it! The double! Looking forward to nothing working across all my tenants for the next few hours/days and apologising at the start of every call for something audio, sharing or joining related.

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Paul Andrew @mrpaulandrew.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

Lesson for today in #MicrosoftFabric ... if you forget to add 'USING DELTA' to your create table statement it will still execute because its valid in Spark. But only create the format as Text, the default, which is not supported in the Fabric SQL Endpoint. Hours lost!

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