Data Lake

Fabric: Lakehouse or Data Warehouse?

There are 2 kinds of companies currently active in the Microsoft data space: those who are migrating to Microsoft …

Is Microsoft Fabric just a rebranding?

It’s a question I see popping up every now and then. Is Microsoft Fabric just a rebranding of existing Azure …

My take-aways from Big Data London: Delta Lake & the open lakehouses

Last week I attended Big Data London. Both days were filled with interesting sessions, mostly focussing on one of the …

How to use service principal authentication to access Microsoft Fabric's OneLake

Microsoft recently added support to authenticate to OneLake using service principals and managed identities. This allows …

Microsoft Fabric's Auto Discovery: a closer look

In previous posts , I dug deeper into Microsoft Fabric’s SQL-based features and we even explored OneLake using …

Exploring OneLake with Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer

Recap: OneLake & Delta Lake One of the coolest things about Microsoft Fabric is that it nicely decouples storage and …

Welcome to the 3rd generation: SQL in Microsoft Fabric

While typing this blog post, I’m flying back from the Data Platform Next Step conference where I gave a talk …

dbt & Fabric: better together

I gave a talk at the Data Platform Next Step conference in Billund, Denmark. The conference was the first conference …

Deploy a data lake on Azure in less than an hour

This talk was given on multiple occasions: During a lunch webinar at dataroots . At Data Science Leuven (event details …

Fabric training programs

I’ve been using Microsoft Fabric since early 2023 and have been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional …