Practical guides and insights for modern data practitioners
In this post I cover some recommended certifications for Microsoft Fabric enthusiasts as 2026 begins. To make people aware of some of the options that are currently available. In a post I shared some updated advice if Microsoft certifications are your New Year’s resolution for 2026. Since that post mentions my older post about certifications for … Read more
Whilst on a personal quest to get some renewals done I got reminded why Microsoft certification renewals are a good thing. I decided to do some certification renewals in bulk in order to free up more time for projects in 2026. Including the Microsoft Fabric Data Engineering certification as shown below. Taking the renewals is … Read more
In this post I want to cover upcoming changes to the DP-700 exam. Which is the exam that you need to pass in order to gain the Fabric Data Engineer Associate certification. From April 21st there will be four changes to the skills measured for the DP-700 exam. I decided to share details about these … Read more
In this post I want to explain how you can warm up for the DP-700 exam with Microsoft Fabric Applied Skills. To be more specific, the three Applied Skills shown in the previous image. Which are related to the three main Microsoft Fabric workloads covered by the exam: In reality, I cover this in my … Read more
In this post I cover four ways to monitor a semantic model refresh in Microsoft Fabric. I wanted to do this post because there is only one reference to semantic models in the DP-700 study guide. Which is to monitor a semantic model refresh. So I wanted to create this unique post to show you … Read more
You can consider this post an updated checklist for the DP-700 exam for the new Microsoft Fabric Data Engineering certification. Which is now GA (Generally Available) and is officially known as the ‘Microsoft Certified: Microsoft Fabric Data Engineer Associate‘ certification. I decided to do an updated version of my previous checklist for the DP-700 beta … Read more
In this post I cover the differences between the self-study material for the DP-600 exam and the new DP-700 course material for the DP-700 exam. To raise awareness that the content is different. For some time now Microsoft has provided a list of recommended Microsoft Learn learning paths for you to study before taking the … Read more
You can consider this post a Fabricators guide to Microsoft Fabric deployment pipelines. Including my unique insights and how this ties in with Microsoft’s latest document relating to CI/CD workflow options in Fabric. I make a point about stating Microsoft Fabric deployment pipelines in the title for this post because other types of pipelines can be … Read more
You can consider this post a Fabricators guide to database projects for Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouses. Since I intend to go into a lot of detail about them in this post to help those that are preparing for the DP-700 exam. You can start booking to take the beta exam on the same day that … Read more
In this post Ianswer the question about whether the new DP-700 Microsoft Fabric exam will replace the DP-600 exam? I address a couple of other points in this post as well. In reality, I already answered this in my previous post about the DP-700 exam. However, I wanted to address this in a separate post … Read more