Learn how to secure temporary access to Fabric Onelake data using OneLake SAS for secure client-side applications| Sandeep Pawar | Microsoft Fabric
TL;DR: Incremental framing is like CDC to RAM 🙂 It significantly improves cold-run performance of Direct Lake mode in some scenarios, there is an excellent documentation that explain everything in details What Is Incremental Framing? One of the most important improvements to Direct Lake mode in Power BI is incremental framing. Power BI’s OLAP engine, … Continue reading "First Look at Incremental Framing in Power BI"| Small Data And self service
Getting different parties in the software industry to agree on a common standard is rare. Most of the time, a dominant player sets the rules. Occasionally, however, collaboration happens organicall…| Small Data And self service
I was giving a presentation about Microsoft Fabric Python notebooks and someone asked if they scale. The short answer is yes. You can download the notebook and try it for yourself. For the long ans…| Small Data And self service
TL;DR: Shared a notebook showing the results of Iceberg metadata conversion to Delta in Onelake. I’ve been following the evolution of Iceberg shortcuts to OneLake and I’m genuinely impressed with how the engineering team has invested so much energy into making it more robust, it is a good idea to read the documentation. Essentially, XTable … Continue reading "Stress Testing Iceberg shortcut in Onelake"| Small Data And self service
Note: The blog and especially the code were written with the assistance of an LLM. TL;DR I built a simple Fabric Python notebook to orchestrate sequential SQL transformation tasks in OneLake using …| Small Data And self service
This is more or less the industry consensus on how a Lakehouse architecture should look in 2025. By now, it’s become clear that Parquet is the de facto standard for storing data, and using an object store to separate storage from compute makes a lot of sense. Another interesting development is how vendors want to … Continue reading "An Excel User’s Perspective on Lakehouse Architecture"| Small Data And self service