Webinar Alert: I'll be hosting and presenting next month at a webinar on what we've called 'Fabric in Production - Stories From the Field'. We're built several #MicrosoftFabric solutions now for our customers and keen to share knowledge. www.cloudformations.org/post/getting...

This Wednesday evening, join me ONLINE at 6:15pm, for a story about #MicrosoftFabric and #GitHub from felllow data platform MVP @kevchant.bsky.social speaking at the #EastMidlandsData #MeetUp. Hope to see you there (on Teams)! #DevOps & #KevOps 😉 www.meetup.com/eastmidlands...

Since the FUAM offering to provide monitoring in #MicrosoftFabric was updated yesterday I thought I better share this post again. Be aware that the main orchestration pipeline now uses different default values. tinyurl.com/FUAMtips/

LIVE NOW, join me ONLINE the #EastMidlandsData #MeetUp with special guest @wstrasser.bsky.social talking to us about data governance, as requested by our attendees. 🙂 www.meetup.com/eastmidlands...

Blogged: From #ProcFwk to #CF.Cumulus: A Story of Metadata, Momentum, and Meaning with @cloudformations.bsky.social www.cloudformations.org/post/cfcumul...

Join me in #Nottingham this Wednesday evening for the East Midlands Data #MeetUp. Special guest Matt Collins will be talking about how to 'Fast-Track Your Lakehouse Build with a Metadata Framework' Plus, I have a box of #Microsoft swag to give away!! 😉 www.meetup.com/eastmidlands...

Thanks #Microsoft @microsoft.com for moving the Edge browser profile switching from the top left to the top right! Why?? ~5 years of muscle memory! Sigh 🤬

So, just killed a customers Fabric F64 capacity with a nested pipeline ForEach, only 100 concurrent copy activities. #MicrosoftFabric sigh!

Happy chocolate egg weekend friends! 🙂 🍫🍫🍫😬🤢

The journey to the #MVPSummit begins… arriving in Seattle around 2am tomorrow morning. Yay! 😴 🚗🚄🚇🛫🛬🚕

Refreshing hidden tables in #PowerBI semantic models with Fabric Data Pipelines blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2025/03/09/r...

Getting ready for the #DataWeekender 🙂 See you at 10:20am GMT www.dataweekender.com/schedule

Our third Fabric session at DataWeekender 7.0 is @mrpaulandrew.bsky.social presenting Fast-Track Your Lakehouse Build with a Metadata Framework at 10:20am UTC on Sat 1st March. Register: https://bit.ly/4b9SsnB. View the schedule: https://bit.ly/46TCJ9i. #MicrosoftFabric

Blogged: Dynamically Getting a #MicrosoftFabric Item ID - Problem & Solution (Hack!) Not sure this should be this difficult. But I lost a day to messing about with the Fabric API so wanted to make sure you don't fall into the same rabbit holes! 😘 www.cloudformations.org/post/dynamic...

This Wednesday, join us in #Derby for the monthly #EastMidlandsData #MeetUp Special guest @azureplayer.bsky.social will be talking to us about #MicrosoftFabric SQL Databases. www.meetup.com/eastmidlands...

Having a fantastic time with the fabulous @mrpaulandrew.bsky.social and @laura-gb.bsky.social in their session: A Data Engineer’s Guide to Platform Governance in Microsoft Fabric—Capacities, Workspaces, Domains, DevOps, and more! 💚 #FabricFebruary #MicrosoftFabric

And it is official: WE HAVE SOLD OUT OUR TRAINING DAYS! 🔥💚 Don't miss out on the MAINCON day: www.fabricfebruary.com @guyinacube.bsky.social, @brianbonk.bsky.social, Devang, @jaypowerbi.bsky.social, @marclelijveld.bsky.social, @mrpaulandrew.bsky.social, Laura - you are crazy popular 😎

Sessions all submitted @sqlbits.bsky.social, hope to see you in soon 😘

Join us tomorrow as we host the excellent @andycutler.bsky.social at the East Midlands Data #MeetUp. The Reality of #MicrosoftFabric Data Warehouses and Deploying Models using #DBT www.meetup.com/eastmidlands...

Thanks Santa (wife) 🙂🤓 #starwars

🎉 The wait is over! SQLBits 2025 is back at ExCeL London from 18-21 June 2025! 📅 Get ready for 4 days of learning, networking & data expertise with the best in the business. Join THE conference for data pros to grow, connect & share knowledge. We can’t wait to see you! 🙌 #SQLBits2025

Blogged: @cloudformations.bsky.social in #Lithuania 2024 www.cloudformations.org/post/cloud-f...

Do love presenting sessions on a cinema screens 🤓 #BigDataEurope

Having a great time in #Lithuania at the 8th Big Data Europe conference. Precon done, lovely speaker dinner done. 3 days to go 🙂

Tuning #PowerBI Copilot with Summarize By blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2024/11/10/t...

#Blogged… Why Data Culture Eats Data Strategy for Breakfast. What do you think? www.cloudformations.org/post/why-dat...

New article: CRUD Operations in #MicrosoftFabric using #GraphQL API Mutations www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip...

Today at @cloudformations.bsky.social HQ I’m wearing the IT Tech hat getting another batch of laptops ready for next weeks new joiners. 🤓 #ExcitingTimes

Odd, I’ve had nothing from this platform for nearly 6 months. Then in the last week or so a steady stream of new followers. What’s changed?

Getting started with #MicrosoftFabric - What/Why/How Free webinar... www.cloudformations.org/post/getting...

Would you like me to review your data platform architecture? #Azure #DataPlatform #MicrosoftFabric #DataFactory #DataMesh www.cloudformations.org/post/would-y...

Join Microsoft Data Platform MVP @mrpaulandrew.bsky.social at #FabricFebruary to learn how #MicrosoftFabric can have an impact on your business! 🧑‍💼💼 fabricfebruary.com/schedule/#sz...#sz#MVPBuzz

Kicking off this evenings #EastMidlandData MeetUp with the excellent @oliviervs.bsky.social (flying in specially from #Belgium) to tell us about migrating #SSRS reports to #PowerBI

Next Wednesday, don't miss out as we kick off the new year with @oliviervs.bsky.social talking about migrating #SSRS reports into #PowerBI at the #EastMidlandsData #MeetUp www.meetup.com/eastmidlands...

Blogged: Preparing to Deliver a Hat-trick of content at #SQLBits 2024 1. Data Integration - #DataFactory #DataPipelines 2. Realtime Data Analytics - #MicrosoftFabric #KQL 3. Data Architecture Evolution - #DeltaLake #DataMesh mrpaulandrew.com/2024/01/02/s...

Blogged: Ending 2023 on a high with two #MicrosoftFabric projects delivered... mrpaulandrew.com/2023/12/19/e...

#MicrosoftFabric is NOT #PowerBI v2 just because in your favourites you navigate to powerbi.com Please bookmark: fabric.microsoft.com ...and while you're at it, add: portal.azure.com 😡 rant over 😉😁

Ooo... you can now get .consulting domain name suffixes 😀 cloudformations.consulting

Thank you to everyone that attended my #MicrosoftFabric session at the #PowerPlatform conference in Prague 🙂👏🏻

Defo a few crazy months of events ahead... Dec - #PowerPlatform Prague Jan - Data Saturday #Austria Feb - @fabricfebruary.bsky.social Mar - #MVPSummit #MVPBuzz & #SQLBits Really looking forward to catching up with friends and #SQLFamily 🙂

Cloud Formations are very proud to share Our Vision - where the passion and experience of our founders meets the ambition and culture of the business. www.cloudformations.org/post/our-vis...

Now that #MicrosoftFabric is generally available and we have a bigger venue, we're looking forward to all your awesome #FabricFebruary sessions! 🙌 (Oh, and we removed the limit on the number of sessions you can submit 😎) sessionize.com/fabric-febru...

What Rob said... :-)

Blogged: Considering a Medallion Architecture vs #MicrosoftFabric mrpaulandrew.com/2023/11/14/c...

Very happy to have so many people at the third (post COVID) #EastMidlandsData MeetUp. This month in #Nottingham with special guest Ian Pike talking about #MicrosoftFabric

Ok! I'm going to do it! The double! Looking forward to nothing working across all my tenants for the next few hours/days and apologising at the start of every call for something audio, sharing or joining related.

Lesson for today in #MicrosoftFabric ... if you forget to add 'USING DELTA' to your create table statement it will still execute because its valid in Spark. But only create the format as Text, the default, which is not supported in the Fabric SQL Endpoint. Hours lost!

Hehe @deck.blue on a 49" monitor... this is fine!!! :-D

#DataRelay 2024 - September 30th to October 4th. But where?? Vote now... forms.office.com/e/7itFVstsC0...