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Mirroring vs Shortcuts in Microsoft Fabric

Published 2025-05-08 by Kevin Feasel

Nikola Ilic compares and contrasts:

A few days ago, I shared a short LinkedIn post in which I condensed key differences and use cases for both mirroring and shortcuts in Microsoft Fabric. Since the post sparked some nice conversation and opened a few additional question, I decided to cover the same topic here, so that it doesn’t get lost in LinkedIn’s “jungle”:)

But, before we move to the final showdown, let’s take one step back and explain what mirroring and shortcuts are.

Click through for the overview and explanation of how the two differ, as well as where each fits.

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Organizing a Microsoft Fabric Data Platform with Domains

Published 2025-05-07 by Kevin Feasel

Jon Vöge does a bit of organization:

A topic which seems more relevant than ever, is the question of how to organize the contents of your Microsoft Fabric Platform.

Through the contents of a few blogs, I will give you an overview of things to consider, as well as suggestions that you can choose from when designing your platform.

This first week, we’ll take a look at Domains in Microsoft Fabric.

Read on to understand why domains can be valuable and a solid way to structure them.

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Writing to Microsoft FabricDelta Tables in Python via DuckDB

Published 2025-05-07 by Kevin Feasel

Gilbert Quevauvilliers does a bit of writing:

When I was exploring how to easily write to Delta Tables with a Python notebook, it took me a considerable amount of time to find out how to do this.

This is my learnings below, and from my point of view it makes it easy to write to a Lakehouse table, like what is done with a PySpark notebook.

Click through for one very important note, as well as the process.

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Task Flows now GA in Microsoft Fabric

Published 2025-05-06 by Kevin Feasel

Dan Liu makes an announcement:

Task flows feature is now generally available! Task flows streamline the design of your data solutions and ensure consistency between design and development efforts. It also allows you to navigate items and manage your workspace more easily, even as it becomes more complex over time.

Read on to see what’s available to us now.

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Authenticate to Fabric Data Connections via Key Vault Secrets

Published 2025-05-05 by Kevin Feasel

Aditya Jain announces a preview:

Azure Key Vault support in Fabric Data connections is now in preview! With this capability, we are introducing a new concept called ‘Azure Key Vault references’ in Microsoft Fabric, using which, users can reuse their existing Azure key vault secrets for authentication to data source connections instead of copy-pasting passwords, slashing credential-management effort and audit risk.

Click through to see what works so far and the current limitations.

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Model Documentation via Fabric Data Agent

Published 2025-05-05 by Kevin Feasel

Chris Webb gets some answers:

AI is meant to help us automate boring tasks, and what could be more boring than creating documentation for your Power BI semantic models? It’s such a tedious task that most people don’t bother; there’s also an ecosystem of third party tools that do this job for you, and you can also build your own solution for this using DAX DMVs or the new-ish INFO functions (see here for a good example). That got me wondering: can you use Fabric Data Agents to generate documentation for you? And what’s more, why even generate documentation when you can just ask a Data Agent the questions that you’d need to generate documentation to answer?

For a simple scenario, Chris was able to get pretty solid results. As complexity grows, your mileage may vary.

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Medallion Architecture in Fabric Real-Time Intelligence

Published 2025-05-02 by Kevin Feasel

Tyler Chessman is like an onion:

Building a multi-layer, medallion architecture using Fabric Real-Time Intelligence (RTI) requires a different approach compared to traditional data warehousing techniques. But even transactional source systems can be effectively processed in RTI. To demonstrate, we’ll look at how sales orders (created in a relational database) can be continuously ingested and transformed through a RTI bronze, silver, and gold layer.

Read on to see how.

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Tracking Query Lineage in Microsoft Fabric Lakehouses

Published 2025-05-02 by Kevin Feasel

Dennes Torres wants to know who is your daddy and what does he do:

If you check the text of the queries, at the end of the text you will find content like this:

OPTION (label = N”{“DatasetId”:”1269551b-bf26-47de-b0f0-974fa60f7b08″,”Sources”:[{“ReportId”:”01ab9208-399a-47ec-b444-d03633fc3e1d”,”VisualId”:”30ac676503a0bd357312″,”Operation”:”AutoPageRefresh”}]}”)

This has an interesting meaning:

  • We can use this information to track the query lineage
  • Applications can send lineage (or more) to SQL using OPTION (LABEL) statement

Click through to learn how you can use this information.

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Power BI in a Microsoft Fabric World

Published 2025-05-01 by Kevin Feasel

Koen Verbeeck answers a question:

We’re a relatively small shop that has been using Power BI for our analytical needs for years now. We’re very pleased with the product, but the recent introduction of Microsoft Fabric has made us a bit anxious. When comparing Microsoft Fabric vs Power BI, it all seems very complex and we’re not even sure we need it. What will happen with Power BI? Will it be replaced with Fabric?

Click through for Koen’s advice and thoughts on the matter.

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April 2025 Updates for Microsoft Fabric

Published 2025-05-01 by Kevin Feasel

Patrick LeBlanc is back with another compendium:

Welcome to the Fabric April 2025 Feature Summary! This update brings exciting advancements across various workloads, including Low-code AI tools to accelerate productivity in notebooks (Preview), session Scoped distributed #temp table in Fabric Data Warehouse (Generally Available) and the Migration assistant for Fabric Data Warehouse (Preview) to simplify your migration experience.

This one isn’t quite as long as last month’s release, but there are still a couple dozen entries.

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