Fabric is here but what does that mean if you are using Power BI? What do you need to know and what, if anything will you need to change if you are a Power BI report designer, developer or BI solution architect? What parts of Fabric should you use now and how do you plan for the near-term future? As I write this in March of 2024, I’m at the Microsoft MVP Summit at the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington this week learning about what the product teams will be working on over the next year or so. Fabric is center stage in every conversation and session. To say that Fabric has moved my cheese would be a gross understatement. I’ve been working with data and reporting solutions for about 30 years and have seen many products come and go. Everything I knew about working with databases, data warehouses, transforming and reporting on data has changed recently BUT it doesn’t mean that everyone using Power BI must stop what they are doing and adapt to these changes. The core product is unchanged. Power BI still works as it always has.
The introduction of Microsoft Fabric in various preview releases over the past two years have immersed me into the world of Spark, Python, parquet-Delta storage, lakehouses and medallion data warehouse architectures. These technologies, significantly different from the SQL Server suite of products I’ve known and loved for the past twenty years, represent a major shift in direction, forming the backbone of OneLake; Microsoft’s universal integrated data platform that hosts all the components comprising Fabric. They built all of Fabric on top of the existing Power BI service, so all of the data workloads live inside familiar workspaces, accessible through the Power BI web-based portal (now called the Fabric portal).
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Paul –
Did you record the three sessions you did in the July class? Can we access those sessions on the web from SQL Server Pro site? We are interested in getting some online training for DataZen. Let us know what you think. Thanks.
Hi Paul,
I attended this webinar and it was great! 🙂
However – in my usage of Datazen I have come across a number of issues apart from the learning curve in designing queries for Datazen. A current example is that I am trying to use gauges which require a Main Value and a Comparison Value. In this instance I only need percentage values and thus do not want the delta labels. I can set the “Delta Label”-parameter to “None”, which works in the Publisher, but when I go to Run preview it still includes delta labels. This worked okay before I published to Server. And in testing it also sometimes work okay when using the web viewer.
Do you have any idea what is going on and/or know where I can post these issues to Datazen/MS so they can be solved?
Hi Paul, I’ve been following you awhile but have yet to take a training. I think DataZen will be the first. I see this 3 session package is closed. Are you doing another one soon, or will this session’s recordings be sufficient?
Hi, these sessions are scheduled by SQL Server Pro Magazine. Given how popular Datazen is likely to be I would expect us to do more training in the future.
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Hello Paul,
I attended your Datazen online training yesterday.
It was great.
I am trying to create a Datazen server in the Azure.
Server is created, but there is a step where I am supposed to upload “Microsoft Branding” to the Datazen Server in the Control panel.
Where can I find that Branding Package? Can I download from somewhere?
Thanks a lot
Hello, Mayank
Thank you for attending the training. I’m not sure about the “Microsoft Branding” package. This might be something Microsoft recently added but I don’t know. The branding package is completely optional and not something to be concerned with. A branding package can be added later to a production server if you ever want to customize the dashboard look and feel for your business but this is completely optional.