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This post covers skills measured for a hypothetical Microsoft Fabric Architect certification. I decided to write this post since the topic has come up in a few conversations. Just to be clear, this is purely hypothetical since there is no such certification at this moment in time. This is simply my view of the skills … Read more
This post covers important Microsoft Fabric CI/CD decisions to consider before or during a project. Because the Microsoft Fabric CI/CD approach can vary for different organizations. Getting the decisions right at an early stage reduces the complexity of your setup at a later stage. Whilst sharing some technical information online about Fabric CI/CD recently, I … Read more
This post covers my recommended versions of GitHub to use with Microsoft Fabric based on different scenarios. Because I want to raise awareness of which versions best suit different scenarios when working with Microsoft Fabric Git integration and implementing CI/CD. For instance, once you have configured Fabric Git integration and want to operationalize fabric-cicd to … Read more
This post covers how you can spread your SQL Server wings with Microsoft Fabric in 2026. As part of a long-running series of posts about spreading your SQL Server wings with the Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform. Just after Microsoft Fabric was publicly announced during Microsoft Build 2023, I published a post that covered spreading your … Read more
In this post I show how you can use Managed DevOps Pools for Microsoft Fabric deployments. Which can be beneficial for a variety of reasons, including the ability to access secure Azure Key Vaults with firewall enabled. Like in the below diagram. This post is based on my previous post where I showed how to … Read more
This post covers how you can perform CI/CD for Fabric apps with Azure DevOps. In order to deploy efficiently with a fully working YAML pipeline. Like in the below diagram. Just to clarify, Fabric apps were announced at Microsoft Build two weeks ago. Idea is that you work with the developer toolkit called Rayfin to … Read more
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday contribution delves into the Fabric multiverse. Focusing on four different possible outcomes for the future of Microsoft Fabric. Based on the thoughts that came to my mind after reading the invite. Before I get going, I just want to make it clear that this post is both fictional and hypothetical. Apart … Read more
This post shows how you can perform Fabric CI/CD securely in GitHub with OpenID Connect and fab deploy. As visualized below. To clarify, OpenID Connect (OIDC) extends OAuth 2.0 to provide identity verification and allows GitHub Actions to securely authenticate to cloud providers using short-lived tokens instead of stored secrets. Fab deploy is a new … Read more
This post covers one way you can simplify CI/CD for Real-Time Intelligence in Microsoft Fabric with the fab deploy command in Azure DevOps. I often get asked if CI/CD for Real-Time Intelligence works. Since it is not a topic that gets discussed often. So I decided to show CI/CD working for Real-Time Intelligence and how … Read more
This post covers how you can speak to your Fabric Ontologies using voice commands. In the past I recommended chatting with your Ontologies by adding them to a Fabric data agent and then chat with your data agent in Visual Studio Code. Now there is an ontology MCP server available. So I decided to show … Read more