Category: Data Integration

27 Apr

Materialized Lake Views in Microsoft Fabric: When your medallion fits in a SELECT statement

by Nikola

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Five surfaces collapsed into one declarative layer. Here's the full story of Materialized Lake Views in Microsoft Fabric - from syntax to the new GA...

12 Feb

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Why every Analytics Engineer needs to understand data architecture

by Nikola

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Get the data architecture right, and everything else becomes easier. Data architecture is the blueprint that determines where your data lives, how it moves between...

15 Oct

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From ‘Dataslows’ to Dataflows: The Gen2 Performance Revolution in Microsoft Fabric

by Nikola

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Dataflows were (rightly?) considered "the slowest and least performant option" for ingesting data into Power BI/Microsoft Fabric. However, things are changing rapidly and the latest...

07 May

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Mirroring vs. Shortcuts in Microsoft Fabric: Which One Should You Use?

by Nikola

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Both features enable the "One Copy" mantra that Fabric heavily promotes. And, although they share a lot of similarities, they work completely differently behind the...