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This months T-SQL Tuesday invites us to cover an impactful session or two from a conference. Before I go any further I just want to say a big thanks to both Kristyna Ferris and Steve Hughes for hosting this months T-SQL Tuesday. An impactful session To be honest, it was tough to choose one in … Read more
This post shows YAML Pipeline examples for the “Deploy Microsoft Fabric items with fabric-cicd” Azure DevOps extension. Which is the Azure DevOps extension that I published last month and is free for everybody to work with within Azure DevOps. You can find additional YAML pipelines examples in my ADO-deploy-fabric-items-task-examples repository. You can a guide on … Read more
Within this post I share my initial thoughts about some of the CI/CD announcements at FabCon. I decided to cover a few since there were so many fantastic announcements during the event. In addition, I decided to focus on the Fabric related announcements even though the SQL-based SQLCon took place at the same time. For … Read more
I want to share my initial thoughts about FabCon and SQLCon 2026 in this post. Since it is still fresh in my mind. This year’s event was bigger than last years for many reasons. Including the size of the venue, the number of attendees and sponsors plus the addition of SQLCon. Just like last year … Read more
This post covers how you can simplify Microsoft Fabric deployments with “Deploy Microsoft Fabric items with fabric-cicd”. Which is an Azure DevOps extension that I recently published. To manage expectations, this post shows how to start working with the extension and its associated task within the GUI-based classic release pipelines in Azure DevOps. Like in … Read more
This post covers how to orchestrate configuration-based deployments to Microsoft Fabric with YAML pipelines in Azure DevOps. This feature is now generally available in the latest fabric-cicd release. In my previous post I showed you how to operationalize configuration-based deployments to work with Microsoft Fabric and the Classic Pipelines in Azure DevOps. Now that Microsoft … Read more
This post covers how to operationalize configuration-based deployments to work with Microsoft Fabric and Azure DevOps. This feature is now generally available in the latest fabric-cicd release. Microsoft has officially announced official support for Microsoft fabric-cicd tool. With that news, this feels like the perfect time to follow up on the post read by thousands … Read more
This post covers how I ended up updating Microsoft Fabric notebook cells at build time with Azure Pipelines. Which is the service that manages your pipelines in Azure DevOps. I decided to share this to be transparent about what happened and how I resolved the issue. Plus, share how you can directly edit notebook cells … Read more
This post is an updated checklist for the DP-600 Microsoft Fabric exam. Which is the exam you need to pass to gain the Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate certification. Some time ago I created a checklist for the DP-600 exam. Since then the skills measured for the exam has changed considerably. To show a bit of … Read more
This post shows how you can automate FUAM deployments and updates with Azure DevOps. Including the creation of service connections, download of relevant items and relevant notebooks run. For those yet to discover FUAM, FUAM stands for Fabric Unified Admin Monitoring and is a popular monitoring solution developed by two Microsoft employees. You deploy FUAM … Read more