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Microsoft Fabric is part of Azure Core Services and therefore part of EU Data Boundary Services
I do not know when the status changed (but I assume beginning of December 2023), but Microsoft Fabric is now part of the Azure Core Services (source: https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/terms/product/PrivacyandSecurityTerms/MPSA) What I even like more is that Microsoft Fabric is now part … Continue reading
Microsoft Fabric core-note at Microsoft Ignite 2023 (demos, features …)
I am not in Seattle this week so I had to watch the Fabric GA (general availability) announcement session with Amir, Arun, Justyna, Jessica and Patrick. And wow – although I could try and play with Microsoft Fabric in private … Continue reading
Microsoft Ignite 2023 – What’s in for us as data professionals?
This week is Microsoft Ignite 2023 week and today was time for the keynote sessions and some major announcements. You can read more about all the news in the official Microsoft Ignite 2023 Book of News. Microsoft Fabric is general … Continue reading
Testing Power BI row-level-security (RLS) got some improvements
Long time, no Power BI blog post from my side. But today I found out, that the testing of your row-level-security (RLS) logic in the Power BI service changed “a little bit” since I last used it. Whenever you want … Continue reading
Posted in Best Practices, Business Intelligence, Microsoft Fabric, PowerBI
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Create your own Microsoft Fabric Test Environment (based on a Microsoft365 Developer Tenant)
I want to test Fabric… is there an easy (and cost-effective aka free) way to do this? There is an easy way on how to test Microsoft Fabric in your own (dev) environment – for free! And event better: now … Continue reading
Create a Microsoft 365 Developer Sandbox (including 25 E5 Test users) to test Power BI (and Fabric too)
Well… there is an easy way to start you Microsoft 365 test-journey today. With the Microsoft 365 Developer Program, you just create your own M365 sandbox – including 25 user E5 licenses for development purposes including fully configured sample data … Continue reading
Ignite 2022 – Azure Data Platform Update
It’s the week of Ignite 2022 and as in the last years, many new features and updates have been announced. It’s hard to catch up with all the tweets, blog posts and similar things so I will recall the good … Continue reading
Complete Analytics Fabric – Azure Synapse and Power Query (Power BI) better together
As a follow up of todays PASSDataCommunitySummit keynote, in which Arun Ulag mentioned a new phrase – the Complete Analytics Fabric, I would like to write more about a new option to really get a complete picture of your Azure … Continue reading
Data Types Conversion Matrix in Power Query
Another useful page for my future reference – Data Types in Power Query describes the available datatypes PLUS a very, very useful Data Types conversion matrix. Convert a decimal number to a date? yes, no, maybe, with a loss of … Continue reading
Connectors in Power Query (reference link)
Sometimes even the internet has some real treasures hidden and I found on this weekend. In many workshops my customers ask me – “Wolfgang, is connector to system XYZ supported in Power BI datasets AND dataflows?” .. and in some … Continue reading
Posted in Azure, Business Intelligence, Cloud, InformationSharing, PowerBI
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